Structure of a pore-blocking toxin in complex with a eukaryotic voltage-dependent K+ channel

eLife

Volumn 2013, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Banerjee, Anirban ^a,b   Lee, Alice ^a   Campbell, Ernest ^a   MacKinnon, Roderick ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARYBDOTOXIN; VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; TOXIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVERSED PHASE HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TOXINS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84879061835     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.00594     Document Type: Article

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