Voltage-dependent gating of KCNH potassium channels lacking a covalent link between voltage-sensing and pore domains

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Lörinczi, Éva ^a,d   Gómez Posada, Juan Camilo ^a   De La Peña, Pilar ^b   Tomczak, Adam P ^a   Fernández Trillo, Jorge ^a   Leipscher, Ulrike ^a   Stühmer, Walter ^a,c   Barros, Francisco ^b   Pardo, Luis A ^a,d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE BIOQUÍMICA Y BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR   (Spain)

^c Cluster of Excellence Nanoscale Microscopy and Molecular Physiology of the Brain   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM CHANNELS KCNH; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM CHANNEL HERG;

NUMERICAL MODEL; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POTASSIUM; PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CHANNEL GATING; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; ION TRANSPORT; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR PORE; OBSERVATION; OOCYTE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; METABOLISM; PATCH CLAMP TECHNIQUE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; ETHER-A-GO-GO POTASSIUM CHANNELS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; OOCYTES; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, VOLTAGE-GATED; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 84926326689     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7672     Document Type: Article

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