Production of Heteromeric Transmembrane Receptors with Defined Subunit Stoichiometry

Tomas Malinauskas; Hiro Furukawa

doi:10.1016/j.str.2016.04.004

Production of Heteromeric Transmembrane Receptors with Defined Subunit Stoichiometry

Structure. 2016 May 3;24(5):653-655. doi: 10.1016/j.str.2016.04.004.

Authors

Tomas Malinauskas¹, Hiro Furukawa²

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¹ Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, W. M. Keck Structural Biology Laboratory, One Bungtown Road, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724, USA.
² Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, W. M. Keck Structural Biology Laboratory, One Bungtown Road, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].

Abstract

Signal transduction across cell membranes often requires assembly of heteromeric receptors with defined stoichiometry. In this issue of Structure, Morales-Perez et al. (2016) present elegant methods for the expression of heteromeric nicotinic acetylcholine receptors with a defined α4β2 stoichiometry involving controlled baculovirus-mediated transduction and subunit counting by measurement of two fluorescent signals.

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Receptors, Nicotinic / chemistry*

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Receptors, Nicotinic

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