Asymmetric transmitter binding sites of fetal muscle acetylcholine receptors shape their synaptic response

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 33, 2013, Pages 13654-13659

  Nayak, Tapan K ^a   Auerbach, Anthony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Allostery; Cholinergic; Kinetics; Nicotinic

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATION CONSTANT; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANT; FETAL MUSCLE; FETUS; HYPERPOLARIZATION; MOUSE; MUSCLE; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

ALLOSTERY; CHOLINERGIC; KINETICS; NICOTINIC;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; ION CHANNEL GATING; KINETICS; MICE; MOTOR ENDPLATE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC;

EID: 84882302283     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1308247110     Document Type: Article

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