Opposite movement of the external gate of a glutamate transporter homolog upon binding cotransported sodium compared with substrate

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 6255-6262

  Focke, Paul J ^a   Moenne Loccoz, Pierre ^b   Larsson, H Peter ^c  

^a Department of Science and Engineering ^*  (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER; GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER DERIVATIVE; SODIUM ION; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHANNEL GATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PYROCOCCUS HORIKOSHII; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SODIUM TRANSPORT; SPIN LABELING;

AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEM X-AG; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; GLUTAMIC ACID; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PYROCOCCUS HORIKOSHII; SODIUM; SPIN LABELS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79955780433     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.6096-10.2011     Document Type: Article

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