Using mutant cycle analysis to elucidate long-range functional coupling in allosteric receptors

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 796, Issue , 2012, Pages 97-113

  Shanata, Jai A P ^a   Frazier, Shawnalea J ^b   Lester, Henry A ^b   Dougherty, Dennis A ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Allostery; Amino acids; Conformational change; Coupling; Ion channel; Nicotinic receptor; Signal transduction; Structure function study

Indexed keywords

EID: 82455216880     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-334-9_6     Document Type: Article

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