Selectivity filters and cysteine-rich extracellular loops in voltage-gated sodium, calcium, and NALCN channels

Frontiers in Physiology

Volumn 6, Issue MAY, 2015, Pages

  Stephens, Robert F ^a   Guan, W ^a   Zhorov, Boris S ^b,c   Spafford, J David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c SECHENOV INSTITUTE OF EVOLUTIONARY PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Calcium channels; Ion channel evolution; Ion channels; Ion pore; Ion selectivity; Lymnaea stagnalis; NALCN; Sodium channels

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL T TYPE; CALCIUM ION; CYSTEINE; GLUTAMIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ION CHANNEL; LYSINE; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM CHANNEL HERG; POTASSIUM CHANNEL K2P1; POTASSIUM CHANNEL KIR2.2; POTASSIUM ION; SODIUM ION; TETRODOTOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLTAGE GATED CALCIUM CHANNEL; VOLTAGE GATED NALCN CHANNEL; VOLTAGE GATED SODIUM CHANNEL;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EUKARYOTE; EXON; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; HUMAN; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW;

EID: 84930640541     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664042X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2015.00153     Document Type: Review

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