The voltage sensor module in sodium channels

Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology

Volumn 221, Issue , 2014, Pages 7-31

  Groome, James R ^a  

^a Nucl Eng Idaho State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Ion channel; Patch clamp electrophysiology; Segment four; Sodium channel; Voltage sensor module; Voltage gated

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE; SODIUM CHANNEL; TOXIN; VOLTAGE GATED SODIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; DEPOLARIZATION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; MUTAGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SODIUM CHANNELOPATHY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; SURFACE CHARGE; X RAY DIFFRACTION; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; REVIEW; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; ION CHANNEL GATING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SODIUM; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; VOLTAGE-GATED SODIUM CHANNELS;

EID: 84903907039     PISSN: 01712004     EISSN: 18650325     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-41588-3_2     Document Type: Article

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