Coupling of voltage-sensors to the channel pore: A comparative view

Frontiers in Pharmacology

Volumn 3 JUL, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Vardanyan, Vitya ^a,b   Pongs, Olaf ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Armenia)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^c SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electromechanical coupling; Ion channels; Voltage sensors

Indexed keywords

ION CHANNEL; POTASSIUM CHANNEL KCNQ1; SHAKER POTASSIUM CHANNEL; VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; COVALENT BOND; CYTOPLASM; EXCITATION CONTRACTION COUPLING; HUMAN; ION CONDUCTANCE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN INTERACTION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

EID: 84866157643     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16639812     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2012.00145     Document Type: Article

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