Chloride ions in the pore of glycine and GABA channels shape the time course and voltage dependence of agonist currents

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 40, 2011, Pages 14095-14106

  Moroni, Mirko ^a   Biro, Istvan ^b   Giugliano, Michele ^b,c,d   Vijayan, Ranjit ^e   Biggin, Philip C ^e   Beato, Marco ^a   Sivilotti, Lucia G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; CHLORIDE ION; GLYCINE RECEPTOR; THIOCYANATE;

ARTICLE; CELL LEVEL; CELL STRAIN HEK293; CHANNEL GATING; CHLORIDE CELL LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DIFFUSION; EMBRYO; EXTRACELLULAR CHLORIDE; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; CHLORIDES; EXTRACELLULAR FLUID; GABA AGONISTS; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR FLUID; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RATS; RECEPTORS, GABA; RECEPTORS, GLYCINE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 80053635399     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1985-11.2011     Document Type: Article

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