Bioinformatic and mutational analysis of channelrhodopsin-2 protein cation-conducting pathway

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 287, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 4818-4825

  Plazzo, Anna Pia ^a,b   De Franceschi, Nicola ^a,b   Da Broi, Francesca ^a,b   Zonta, Francesco ^a   Sanasi, Maria Federica ^a   Filippini, Francesco ^a   Mongillo, Marco ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b VENETIAN INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS; BIOTECHNOLOGICAL TOOLS; CATION CHANNELS; CATIONIC PATHWAYS; CELL TYPES; HELA CELL; INNER CAVITIES; ION CONDUCTANCE; ION SELECTIVITY; MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; MICROBIAL RHODOPSINS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PATCH CLAMP; PROTEIN FUNCTIONS; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STRUCTURAL DETERMINANTS; STRUCTURAL INFORMATION;

ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; POSITIVE IONS; TISSUE;

BIOINFORMATICS;

ASPARAGINE; CHANNELRHODOPSIN 2; RHODOPSIN; SERINE; THREONINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHR2 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; ION CONDUCTANCE; MARKER GENE; MOLECULAR MODEL; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RESIDUE ANALYSIS; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; ION TRANSPORT; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RHODOPSIN;

EID: 84856871975     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M111.326207     Document Type: Article

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