Mechanism of activation and selectivity in a ligand-gated ion channel: structural and functional studies of GluR2 and quisqualate.
Jin R, Horning M, Mayer ML, Gouaux E.
Jin R, et al. Among authors: gouaux e.
Biochemistry. 2002 Dec 31;41(52):15635-43. doi: 10.1021/bi020583k.
Biochemistry. 2002.
PMID: 12501192
Quisqualate is a high-affinity, full agonist which like AMPA and glutamate elicits maximum peak current responses, and stabilizes the ligand binding core in a fully closed conformation, reinforcing the concept that full agonists produce similar conformational changes [Armstrong, …
Quisqualate is a high-affinity, full agonist which like AMPA and glutamate elicits maximum peak current responses, and stabilizes the ligand …