Common origins

Lesley Anson

Nature, 1999, vol. 402, issue 6763, 739-739

Abstract: The first bacterial glutamate receptor has been identified, and has an unexpected property: it is very selective for potassium ions. The receptor's amino-acid sequence shows similarity to both glutamate receptors and potassium channels, raising the exciting prospect that both originated from a common ancestor.

Date: 1999
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.nature.com/articles/45419 Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nat:nature:v:402:y:1999:i:6763:d:10.1038_45419

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://www.nature.com/

DOI: 10.1038/45419

Access Statistics for this article

Nature is currently edited by Magdalena Skipper

More articles in Nature from Nature
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().