Sodium and potassium competition in potassium-selective and non-selective channels

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Sauer, David B ^a   Zeng, Weizhong ^a,b   Canty, John ^a   Lam, Yeeling ^a   Jiang, Youxing ^a,b  

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

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NAK2CNG CHANNEL; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM ION; POTASSIUM SELECTIVE CHANNEL NAK2K; SODIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM ION; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DIFFRACTION; ION; MUTATION; POTASSIUM; SODIUM;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING COMPETITION; BINDING SITE; CHANNEL GATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANT; FILTER; ION CONDUCTANCE; ISOTHERMAL TITRATION CALORIMETRY; MUTANT; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TITRIMETRY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ION CHANNEL GATING; LIPOSOMES; MUTATION; POTASSIUM; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SODIUM;

EID: 84887802264     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3721     Document Type: Article

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