A neurosteroid potentiation site can be moved among GABAA receptor subunits

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 590, Issue 22, 2012, Pages 5739-5747

  Bracamontes, John R ^a   Li, Ping ^a   Akk, Gustav ^a   Steinbach, Joe Henry ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

3ALPHA HYDROXY 5ALPHA PREGNAN 20 ONE; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR ALPHA1; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR BETA2; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR GAMMA2; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; NEUROSTEROID;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG POTENTIATION; EMBRYO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KINETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; STEROID BINDING; WILD TYPE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANESTHETICS; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PREGNANOLONE; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RATS; RECEPTORS, GABA-A;

EID: 84869831202     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2012.237255     Document Type: Article

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