A mechanism for intracellular release of Na+ by neurotransmitter/sodium symporters

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1006-1012

  Malinauskaite, Lina ^a   Quick, Matthias ^b,c   Reinhard, Linda ^a,d   Lyons, Joseph A ^a   Yano, Hideaki ^b,d,e   Javitch, Jonathan A ^b,c   Nissen, Poul ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b Department of Neurology and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain   (United States)

^c NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MONOVALENT CATION; PROTEIN BINDING; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SODIUM; TRYPTOPHAN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; KINETICS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CATIONS, MONOVALENT; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; GENE EXPRESSION; KINETICS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SODIUM; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY, PROTEIN; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TRYPTOPHAN;

EID: 84920537790     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.2894     Document Type: Article

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