NALCN Ion Channels Have Alternative Selectivity Filters Resembling Calcium Channels or Sodium Channels

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Senatore, Adriano ^a   Monteil, Arnaud ^b,c,d   van Minnen, Jan ^e   Smit, August B ^f   Spafford, J David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b INSTITUT DE GÉNOMIQUE FONCTIONNELLE   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

^d UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^f VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL; MESSENGER RNA; SODIUM CHANNEL;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL STRAIN HEK293; CHANNEL GATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FUNCTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; IN VITRO STUDY; LYMNAEA STAGNALIS; NALCN GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSTATE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SODIUM CONDUCTANCE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CALCIUM CHANNELS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POROSITY; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SNAILS; SODIUM CHANNELS;

EID: 84873804456     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055088     Document Type: Article

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