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Preferred term

Cysteine Loop Ligand-Gated Ion Channel Receptors  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Entry terms

  • Cys Loop Receptor
  • Cys-Loop Receptor
  • Cys Loop Receptors
  • Cys-Loop Receptors
  • Cys Loop Receptor Superfamily
  • Cys-Loop Receptor Superfamily
  • Cysteine Loop Ligand Gated Ion Channel Receptor
  • Cysteine Loop Ligand-Gated Ion Channel Receptor
  • Receptor, Cys-Loop
  • Receptors, Cys-Loop
  • Receptor Superfamily, Cys-Loop
  • Superfamily, Cys-Loop Receptor

Scope note

  • A subfamily of ligand-gated ion channel receptors that share a characteristic loop which is formed by a disulfide bond between two CYSTEINE residues. These receptors typically contain five subunits with the cysteine-loop occurring near an N-terminal extracellular domain.

History note

  • 2011

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D058466

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