Functional insights from glutamate receptor ion channel structures

Annual Review of Physiology

Volumn 75, Issue , 2013, Pages 313-337

  Kumar, Janesh ^a   Mayer, Mark L ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

AMPA receptors; Crystallography; Kainate receptors; NMDA receptors; Synaptic transmission

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR 1; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR 2; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR 3; KAINIC ACID RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; TETRAMER;

ALLOSTERISM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; BINDING SITE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; LIGAND BINDING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; STOICHIOMETRY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; HUMANS; ION CHANNELS; RECEPTORS, AMPA; RECEPTORS, GLUTAMATE; RECEPTORS, IONOTROPIC GLUTAMATE; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84873681332     PISSN: 00664278     EISSN: 15451585     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-physiol-030212-183711     Document Type: Review

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