Structure of potassium channels

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 72, Issue 19, 2015, Pages 3677-3693

  Kuang, Qie ^a,b   Purhonen, Pasi ^a   Hebert, Hans ^a,b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Conductivity; Gating; RCK; Selectivity; Sensor domain

Indexed keywords

DIMER; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL; INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL SUBUNIT KIR2.2; INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL SUBUNIT KIR3.1; INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL SUBUNIT KIR3.2; LIGAND GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 4,5 BISPHOSPHATE; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM ION; POTASSIUM PROTON EXCHANGE PROTEIN; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE A; TANDEM PORE DOMAIN POTASSIUM CHANNEL; TWIK RELATED ARACHIDONIC ACID ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; CHANNEL GATING; EXTRACELLULAR GATE; INTRACELLULAR GATE; KTN DOMAIN; LIPID METABOLISM; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PORE FORMING DOMAIN; POTASSIUM TRANSPORT; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RCK DOMAIN; REVIEW; STREPTOMYCES LIVIDANS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TANDEM PORE DOMAIN; VOLTAGE SENSOR DOMAIN; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DIMERIZATION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

DIMERIZATION; ION CHANNEL GATING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84941421455     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: 14209071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-015-1948-5     Document Type: Review

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