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Conformational flexibility of the agonist binding jaw of the human P2X3 receptor is a prerequisite for channel opening.
British journal of pharmacology - 1 Nov 2014
Kowalski M, Hausmann R, Dopychai A, Grohmann M, Franke H, Nieber K, Schmalzing G, Illes P, Riedel T
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: It is assumed that ATP induces closure of the binding jaw of ligand-gated P2X receptors, which eventually results in the opening of the membrane channel and the flux of cations. Immobilization by cysteine mutagenesis of the binding jaw inhibited ATP-induced current responses, but did not allow discrimination between disturbances of binding, gating, subunit assembly or trafficking to the...
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