A new look at sodium channel β subunits

Open Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Namadurai, Sivakumar ^a   Yereddi, Nikitha R ^a   Cusdin, Fiona S ^a,b   Huang, Christopher L H ^a   Chirgadze, Dimitri Y ^a   Jackson, Antony P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b MEDIMMUNE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ion channelopathies; Sodium channel b subunits; X ray crystallography

Indexed keywords

VOLTAGE GATED SODIUM CHANNEL BETA SUBUNIT;

ACTION POTENTIAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHANNEL GATING; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; ION CHANNEL GATING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; VOLTAGE-GATED SODIUM CHANNEL BETA SUBUNITS;

EID: 84923683643     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20462441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsob.140192     Document Type: Review

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