Energetic Contributions to Channel Gating of Residues in the Muscle Nicotinic Receptor β1 Subunit

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Akk, Gustav ^a   Eaton, Megan ^a   Li, Ping ^a   Zheng, Steven ^a   Lo, Joshua ^a   Steinbach, Joe Henry ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; AMINO ACID; MUSCLE NICOTINIC RECEPTOR BETA1; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CHRNB1 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHANNEL GATING; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; ANIMAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ENERGY METABOLISM; HEK293 CELL LINE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; MUTAGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; ENERGY METABOLISM; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; ION CHANNEL GATING; MICE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUTAGENESIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC;

EID: 84886057632     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0078539     Document Type: Article

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