Looking below the surface of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors

Trends in Pharmacological Sciences

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 514-523

  Stokes, Clare ^a   Treinin, Millet ^b   Papke, Roger L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

cys loop receptors; evolution; intracellular domains; protein structure; proteomics; signal transduction

Indexed keywords

BUNGAROTOXIN RECEPTOR; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR ALPHA1; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR ALPHA10; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR ALPHA2; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR ALPHA3; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR ALPHA4; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR ALPHA5; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR ALPHA6; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR ALPHA9; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR BETA1; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR BETA2; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR BETA3; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR BETA4; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR DELTA; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR EPSILON; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR GAMMA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMPHIBIA; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CHICKEN; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; COW; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HOST CELL; HUMAN; HYDROPHOBICITY; ION CURRENT; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RAT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ZEBRA FISH; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC;

EID: 84938978211     PISSN: 01656147     EISSN: 18733735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tips.2015.05.002     Document Type: Review

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