Identification of the prokaryotic ligand-gated ion channels and their implications for the mechanisms and origins of animal Cys-loop ion channels.

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Published in Genome Biol on December 20, 2004

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Asba Tasneem1, Lakshminarayan M Iyer, Eric Jakobsson, L Aravind

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1: Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 405 N Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.

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