A plant homolog of animal glutamate receptors is an ion channel gated by multiple hydrophobic amino acids

Science Signaling

Volumn 6, Issue 279, 2013, Pages

  Tapken, Daniel ^a   Anschütz, Uta ^b   Liu, Lai Hua ^c   Huelsken, Thomas ^a   Seebohm, Guiscard ^a   Becker, Dirk ^b   Hollmann, Michael ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; AMINO ACID; ARGININE; ASPARAGINE; ASPARTIC ACID; CALCIUM ION; CYSTEINE; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR 1; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR 1.4; GLUTAMINE; GLYCINE; HISTIDINE; ISOLEUCINE; LEUCINE; LYSINE; METHIONINE; NORLEUCINE; PHENYLALANINE; PROLINE; SERINE; THREONINE; TRYPTOPHAN; TYROSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALINE; AMINO ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; AMINO ACID RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; CALCIUM CHANNEL; GLR1.4 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; ION CHANNEL;

ANIMAL CELL; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE INACTIVATION; LIGAND BINDING; MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; PLANT LEAF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; XENOPUS LAEVIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMICAL PHENOMENA; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; HEK293 CELL LINE; HUMAN; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CALCIUM CHANNELS; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; FEMALE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; ION CHANNEL GATING; ION CHANNELS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; METHIONINE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OOCYTES; PHYLOGENY; RECEPTORS, GLUTAMATE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 84879931621     PISSN: 19450877     EISSN: 19379145     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/scisignal.2003762     Document Type: Article

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