... ligand-gated ion channel that defines a new subgroup of the cysteine-loop superfamily of ligand-gated ion channels (Davies et ... Zinc-activated ligand-gated ion channel. LGICZ1 is a zinc-activated ... Ligand-gated Ion Channel. / Gaba Receptor. / Zinc-activated Ligand-gated Ion Channel Protein / Receptor. / Ligand-gated Ion ... Ion Channel. / Neurotransmitter Receptor, Cys Loop, Ligand-gated Ion Channel (Lic) Family. / Zinc-activated Ligand-gated Ion ...
The nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) are members of a superfamily of ligand-gated ion channels that mediate fast ... They are classified as alpha-subunits if, like muscle alpha-1 (MIM 100690), they have a pair of adjacent cysteines as part of ... a variable cytoplasmic loop, a fourth conserved transmembrane domain, and a short C-terminal extracellular region.[supplied by ... Subunits lacking these cysteine residues are classified as beta-subunits (Groot Kormelink and Luyten, 1997 [PubMed 9009220]). ...