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Tetracaine reports a conformational change in the pore of cyclic nucleotide-gated channels.
The Journal of general physiology - 1 Nov 1997
Fodor A A, Black K D, Zagotta W N
Abstract excerpt
Local anesthetics are a diverse group of clinically useful compounds that act as pore blockers of both voltage- and cyclic nucleotide-gated (CNG) ion channels. We used the local anesthetic tetracaine to probe the nature of the conformational change that occurs in the pore of CNG channels during the opening allosteric transition. When applied to the intracellular side of wild-type rod CNG channels expressed in...
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