The multi-ion nature of the cGMP-gated channel from vertebrate rods.

doi:10.1113/jphysiol.1995.sp020858

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The multi-ion nature of the cGMP-gated channel from vertebrate rods.

The Journal of physiology - 15 Aug 1995

Sesti F, Eismann E, Kaupp U B, Nizzari M, Torre V

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1. Native cGMP-gated channels were studied in rod outer segments of the larval tiger salamander, Ambystoma tigrinum. The alpha-subunit of the cGMP-gated channel, here referred to as the wild type (WT), and mutant channels were heterologously expressed in Xenopus laevis oocytes. These channels wer...

Topics

Ambystoma
Animals
Cesium
Cyclic GMP
Cyclic Nucleotide-Gated Cation Channels
Ion Channel Gating
Ion Channels
Ions
Larva
Lithium
Mutation
Oocytes
Rod Cell Outer Segment
Sodium
Xenopus laevis

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