Radial Symmetry in a Chimaeric Glutamate Receptor Pore

Ionotropic glutamate receptors comprise two conformationally different A/C and B/D subunit pairs. Closed channels exhibit 4-fold radial symmetry in the transmembrane domain (TMD) but transition to 2-fold dimer-of-dimers symmetry for extracellular ligand binding and N-terminal domains. Here, to evalu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Wilding, Timothy J, Lopez, Melany N., Huettner, James E.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3962659/