Tunable pK a values and the basis of opposite charge selectivities in nicotinic-type receptors

Nature

Volumn 474, Issue 7352, 2011, Pages 526-531

  Cymes, Gisela D ^a   Grosman, Claudio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANION; CATION; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; PROLINE; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; GLYCINE RECEPTOR; LIGAND; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; PROTON;

AMINO ACID; INHIBITOR; ION; MUTATION;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; IONIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON TRANSPORT; ANIMAL; CELL STRAIN HEK293; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GENETICS; HUMAN; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MOUSE; MUTATION; RAT; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; KINETICS; LIGANDS; MICE; MUTATION; PROLINE; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; PROTONS; RATS; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; RECEPTORS, GLYCINE; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

EID: 79959569309     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10015     Document Type: Article

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