A uniquely adaptable pore is consistent with NALCN being an ion sensor

Channels

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 60-68

  Senatore, Adriano ^a   Spafford, J David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Calcium channels; Ion selectivity; Molecular evolution; Sodium channels; Sodium leak conductance channel

Indexed keywords

ADAPTOR PROTEIN; CALCIUM CHANNEL; CALCIUM ION; NALCN PROTEIN; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM ION; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; CAENORHABDITIS; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CHANNEL GATING; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CYTOPLASM; DROSOPHILA; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; GENE DUPLICATION; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; ION TRANSPORT; LYMNAEA STAGNALIS; MEMBRANE CHANNEL; MEMBRANE FILTER; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR SENSOR; NEMATOSTELLA; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PHENOTYPE; POROSITY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SODIUM CURRENT; SODIUM TRANSPORT; TRICHOPLAX;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84876551918     PISSN: 19336950     EISSN: 19336969     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/chan.23981     Document Type: Note

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