Towards a structural view of gating in potassium channels

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 905-916

  Swartz, Kenton J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL; CALCIUM ION; CHLORIDE CHANNEL; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM ION; SODIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM ION;

ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; REVIEW; SENSOR; X RAY ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; HUMANS; ION CHANNEL GATING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

ARCHAEA; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 9944226711     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn1559     Document Type: Review

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