Tetrameric assembly of KvLm K+ channels with defined numbers of voltage sensors

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

Volumn 109, Issue 42, 2012, Pages 16917-16922

  Syeda, Ruhma ^a,b   Santos, Jose S ^b   Montal, Mauricio ^b   Bayley, Hagan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Lipid bilayers; Membrane proteins; Membrane reconstitution; Voltage gated potassium channels

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM CHANNEL KVLM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ARTICLE; LIPID BILAYER; LIPID VESICLE; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MEMBRANE RECONSTITUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; ELECTROPHORESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, VOLTAGE-GATED; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

EID: 84867636898     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1205592109     Document Type: Article

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