Voltage-sensing domain mode shift is coupled to the activation gate by the N-terminal tail of hERG channels

Journal of General Physiology

Volumn 140, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 293-306

  Tan, Peter S ^a   Perry, Matthew D ^a,b   Ng, Chai Ann ^a,b   Vandenberg, Jamie I ^a,b   Hill, Adam P ^a,b  

^a VICTOR CHANG CARDIAC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERG1 POTASSIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM CHANNEL HERG;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; CHEMISTRY; FLUOROMETRY; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MISSENSE MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; ETHER-A-GO-GO POTASSIUM CHANNELS; FLUOROMETRY; GENE DELETION; HUMANS; ION CHANNEL GATING; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; XENOPUS;

EID: 84866337753     PISSN: 00221295     EISSN: 15407748     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1085/jgp.201110761     Document Type: Article

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