Coupled ion binding and structural transitions along the transport cycle of glutamate transporters

eLife

Volumn 2014, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Verdon, Grégory ^b,c   Oh, SeCheol ^a   Serio, Ryan ^b,c   Boudker, Olga ^b,c  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER; GLYCINE; METHIONINE; POTASSIUM ION; SODIUM ION; ION; SODIUM CHANNEL;

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTALLIZATION; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; ISOMERIZATION; ISOTHERMAL TITRATION CALORIMETRY; MOLECULAR MODEL; MUTANT; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; CHANNEL GATING; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEM X-AG; BINDING SITES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ION CHANNEL GATING; IONS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SODIUM CHANNELS;

EID: 84901049540     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.02283     Document Type: Article

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