Binding interactions with the complementary subunit of nicotinic receptors

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 288, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 6991-6997

  Blum, Angela P ^a   Van Arnam, Ethan B ^a   German, Laurel A ^a   Lester, Henry A ^b   Dougherty, Dennis A ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING INTERACTION; DRUG DISCOVERY; DRUG-RECEPTOR INTERACTIONS; FUNCTIONAL RECEPTORS; FUNCTIONAL VALIDATION; HYDROGEN BONDING INTERACTIONS; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; STRUCTURAL MODELS;

BINDING ENERGY; HYDROGEN BONDS; MODEL STRUCTURES;

DRUG INTERACTIONS;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ASPARAGINE; CHOLINE; CYTISINE; EPIBATIDINE; LEUCINE; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; VARENICLINE;

ALPHA HELIX; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROGEN BOND; MOUSE; MUTAGENESIS; MUTANT; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; RAT; RECEPTOR BINDING; STOP CODON; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ACETYLCHOLINE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ASPARAGINE; BICYCLO COMPOUNDS, HETEROCYCLIC; BINDING SITES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROGEN BONDING; LEUCINE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MUTATION; NICOTINE; OOCYTES; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PROTEIN BINDING; PYRIDINES; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 84874859868     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M112.439968     Document Type: Article

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