Electrophysiological, Biochemical, and Bioinformatic Methods for Studying CFTR Channel Gating and Its Regulation

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 741, Issue , 2011, Pages 443-469

  Csanády, László ^a   Vergani, Paola ^b   Gulyás Kovács, Attila ^c   Gadsby, David C ^c  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

coevolution; cysteine modification; energetic analysis; kinetic analysis; multiple channels; Single channels

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGY; CELL MEMBRANE; CHANNEL GATING; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GENETICS; HUMAN; KINETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROELECTRODE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; OOCYTE; PATCH CLAMP; PHOSPHORYLATION; PLASMID; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; REPRODUCIBILITY; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; BIOCHEMISTRY; CELL MEMBRANE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CYSTEINE; CYSTIC FIBROSIS TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESSES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; ION CHANNEL GATING; KINETICS; MICROELECTRODES; MUTATION; OOCYTES; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PHOSPHORYLATION; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS; XENOPUS;

EID: 80052305920     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: 19406029     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-117-8_28     Document Type: Chapter

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