Distinct gating mechanisms revealed by the structures of a multi-ligand gated K+ channel

eLife

Volumn 2012, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Kong, Chunguang ^a   Zeng, Weizhong ^a,b   Ye, Sheng ^c   Chen, Liping ^a,b   Sauer, David Bryant ^a   Lam, Yeeling ^a   Derebe, Mehabaw Getahun ^a   Jiang, Youxing ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; CALCIUM CHANNEL; LIGAND GATED ION CHANNEL; LIPOSOME; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CALCIUM; LIGAND; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIMERIZATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FLUOROSCOPY; GENE MUTATION; LIGAND BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RADIOACTIVITY; ZINC FINGER MOTIF; ALLOSTERISM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHANNEL GATING; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; GEOBACTER; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; ALLOSTERIC REGULATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CALCIUM; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GEOBACTER; ION CHANNEL GATING; LIGAND-GATED ION CHANNELS; LIGANDS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NAD; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84881538221     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.00184     Document Type: Article

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