Position of the third Na + site in the aspartate transporter Glt Ph and the human glutamate transporter, EAAT1

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Bastug, Turgut ^a,b   Heinzelmann, Germano ^a   Kuyucak, Serdar ^a   Salim, Marietta ^a   Vandenberg, Robert J ^a   Ryan, Renae M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b TOBB UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ASPARAGINE; ASPARTIC ACID; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER 1; GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER; SERINE; SODIUM ION; THREONINE; TYROSINE; SLC1A3 PROTEIN, HUMAN; SODIUM;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; SIMULATION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SODIUM TRANSPORT; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM;

ARCHAEA;

AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEM X-AG; BINDING SITES; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER 1; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; SODIUM;

EID: 84858110981     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0033058     Document Type: Article

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