Genetically encoding a light switch in an ionotropic glutamate receptor reveals subunit-specific interfaces

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

Volumn 111, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 6081-6086

  Zhu, Shujia ^a,b   Riou, Morgane ^a   Yao, C Andrea ^a   Carvalho, Stéphanie ^a   Rodriguez, Pamela C ^a   Bensaude, Olivier ^a   Paoletti, Pierre ^a   Ye, Shixin ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b B326 Science Building   (China)

Author keywords

Neurotransmitter receptor; Protein structure function

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; DIMER; GLUN1 PROTEIN; GLUN2B PROTEIN; IONOTROPIC RECEPTOR; LIGAND GATED ION CHANNEL; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ILLUMINATION; LIGHT; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; XENOPUS;

NEUROTRANSMITTER RECEPTOR; PROTEIN STRUCTURE-FUNCTION;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; HUMANS; LIGHT; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTANT PROTEINS; NEURONS; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RATS; RECEPTORS, IONOTROPIC GLUTAMATE; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; XENOPUS;

EID: 84899094677     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1318808111     Document Type: Article

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