Stoichiometry of the human glycine receptor revealed by direct subunit counting

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 37, 2012, Pages 12915-12920

  Durisic, Nela ^a,d   Godin, Antoine G ^b   Wever, Claudia M ^d   Heyes, Colin D ^c   Lakadamyali, Melike ^a   Dent, Joseph A ^d  

^a ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

^b CENTRE DE RECHERCHE DE L INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE EN SANTÉ MENTALE DE QUÉBEC   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCINE RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

ALPHA CHAIN; ARTICLE; BETA CHAIN; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; BLEACHING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFRACTION; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOICHIOMETRY; VOLTAGE CLAMP; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; HUMANS; OOCYTES; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RECEPTORS, GLYCINE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 84866254123     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2050-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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