Glutamate Receptor Ion Channels and their relatives in Bacteria
BackgroundVoltage-gated and ligand-gated ion channels are used in eukaryotie organisms for the purpose of electrochemical signaling. 1 There are prokaryotic homologues to major eukaryotie channels of these sorts, including voltage-gated sodium, potassium, and calcium channels, and Ach-receptor and glutamatereceptor channels. 2, 3 Compared to their eukaryotic homologues, most prokaryotic ion channels, however,remain functionally unknown. A major question is whether the function in prokaryotes is electrochemical signaling between prokaryotic cells,or whether they have other functions such as regulation of secretion, and such homeostatic functions as osmotic balance and regulation of pH-or all of the above.
Mao-Feng Ger Gloria Rendon Eric Jakobsson
Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U National Center for Supercomputing Applications, USA Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U
国际会议
The 7th Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference(第七届亚太生物信息学大会)
北京
英文
880
2009-01-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）