Principles and properties of ion flow in P2X receptors

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue FEB, 2014, Pages

  Samways, Damien S K ^a   Li, Zhiyuan ^b   Egan, Terrance M ^c  

^a CLARKSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GUANGZHOU INSTITUTES OF BIOMEDICINE AND HEALTH   (China)

^c SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

ATP; Gating; Mutagenesis; P2X; Permeability; SCAM; Selectivity

Indexed keywords

IONOTROPIC RECEPTOR; PURINERGIC P2X RECEPTOR;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CALCIUM CURRENT; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DEPOLARIZATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMAN; ION PERMEABILITY; ION TRANSPORT; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

EID: 84893635581     PISSN: 16625102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2014.00006     Document Type: Review

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