NMDA receptor activation requires remodelling of intersubunit contacts within ligand-binding heterodimers

Nature Communications

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Borschel, William F ^a   Murthy, Swetha E ^a   Kasperek, Eileen M ^a   Popescu, Gabriela K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HETERODIMER; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR GLU2A; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR GLUN1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; LIGAND;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVALENT BOND; LIGAND BINDING; MUTAGENESIS; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; CHEMISTRY; DIMERIZATION; DRUG POTENTIATION; METABOLISM; PATCH CLAMP; PROTEIN BINDING;

DIMERIZATION; LIGANDS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PROTEIN BINDING; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE;

EID: 80055033154     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1512     Document Type: Article

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