Structure and permeation mechanism of a mammalian urea transporter

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

Volumn 109, Issue 28, 2012, Pages 11194-11199

  Levin, Elena J ^a   Cao, Yu ^a   Enkavi, Giray ^b   Quick, Matthias ^c   Pan, Yaping ^a   Tajkhorshid, Emad ^b   Zhou, Ming ^a  

^a Department of Neurology and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Channels; Membrane proteins; Osmosensing; Renal physiology

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UREA; UREA TRANSPORTER B;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BOS TAURUS; COW; HUMAN; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; OSMOSIS; PERMEABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; HUMANS; KIDNEY; LIGANDS; LIPOSOMES; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; METABOLISM; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; OSMOSIS; PROTEINS; UREA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84863944898     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1207362109     Document Type: Article

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