Mechanism of electromechanical coupling in voltage-gated potassium channels

Frontiers in Pharmacology

Volumn 3 SEP, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Blunck, Rikard ^a,b   Batulan, Zarah ^a,b  

^a Integrative Physiology and Groupe D'étude des Protéines Membranaires   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

BKCa; Electromechanical coupling; Gating; HCN; HERG; Voltage gated potassium channels

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE GATED CHANNEL; DELAYED RECTIFIER VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; HYPERPOLARIZATION ACTIVATED CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE GATED CHANNEL; LARGE CONDUCTANCE CALCIUM ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM CHANNEL HERG; POTASSIUM CHANNEL KCNQ1; POTASSIUM CHANNEL KV1.2; SHAKER POTASSIUM CHANNEL; SHAL POTASSIUM CHANNEL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHANNEL GATING; CLOSED STATE INACTIVATION; CONDUCTANCE VOLTAGE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; COVALENT BOND; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELASTICITY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENERGY TRANSFER; EXCITATION CONTRACTION COUPLING; GATING CHARGE VOLTAGE; HUMAN; LIGAND BINDING; MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POINT MUTATION; PORE DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; S4 S5 LINKER; S4 SEGMENT VOLTAGE SENSOR; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

EID: 84867125510     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16639812     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2012.00166     Document Type: Article

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