Sources of energy for gating by neurotransmitters in acetylcholine receptor channels

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 24, 2012, Pages 9384-9389

  Purohit, Prasad ^a   Bruhova, Iva ^a   Auerbach, Anthony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Allosteric; Conformation; Ligand gated

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC AMINE; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; LIGAND GATED ION CHANNEL; NEUROTRANSMITTER; TYROSINE;

ALLOSTERISM; ALPHA CHAIN; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ENERGY TRANSFER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MUTATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; RECEPTOR AFFINITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

ANIMALS; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; TORPEDO;

EID: 84862162118     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1203633109     Document Type: Article

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