The nicotinic acetylcholine receptor: The founding father of the pentameric ligand-gated ion channel superfamily

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 287, Issue 48, 2012, Pages 40207-40215

  Changeux, Jean Pierre ^a,b  

^a l'alimentation et l'Environnement   (France)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY; CHEMICAL IDENTIFICATION; CHEMICAL SIGNALS; CRITICAL EVENTS; LIGAND-GATED ION CHANNELS; MEMBRANE RECEPTORS; MOLECULAR DEVICE; NICOTINIC ACETYLCHOLINE RECEPTORS; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR;

BIOCHEMISTRY;

ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY;

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ALPHA BUNGAROTOXIN; CHLORIDE CHANNEL; CHLORPROMAZINE; COBROTOXIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; DESFLURANE; GALANTAMINE; GLUTAMATE GATED CHLORIDE CHANNEL; GLYCINE RECEPTOR; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; INHALATION ANESTHETIC AGENT; INTRAVENOUS ANESTHETIC AGENT; IVERMECTIN; LIGAND GATED ION CHANNEL; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR ALPHA4BETA2; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR ALPHA7BETA2; PENTAMERIC LIGAND GATED ION CHANNEL SUPERFAMILY; PROPOFOL; RAPSYN; RNA; SEROTONIN 3A RECEPTOR; TYROSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLOSTERISM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG BINDING; ELECTROPLAQUE; HUMAN; ION CURRENT; ION TRANSPORT; MOLECULAR CLONING; NERVE ENDING; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING; NEUROMUSCULAR TRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; RECEPTOR BINDING; RNA EXTRACTION; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; CYSTEINE LOOP LIGAND-GATED ION CHANNEL RECEPTORS; HUMANS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC;

EID: 84870042685     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.R112.407668     Document Type: Short Survey

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