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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Dec 29.
Published in final edited form as: Neuron. 2007 May 24;54(4):511–533. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2007.04.026

Table 1. Key High-Resolution Structures with Relevance for Neurobiologists: Channels, Transporters, and Receptors.

Resolutiona Reference
Ligand-gated ion channels: whole channels Torpedo marmorata nicotinic acetylcholine receptor 4.0 Å Miyazawa et al., 2003
Ligand-gated ion channels: extracellular domains Mollusc AChBPs
Limnea stagnalis AChBP 2.7 Å Brejc et al., 2001
Limnea stagnalis AChBP: conotoxin complex 2.4 Å Celie et al., 2005a
Limnea stagnalis AChBP: carbamoylcholine and nicotine complexes 2.2 Å Celie et al., 2004
Glutamate receptors: extracellular domains
AMPA (GluR2) 1.9 Å Armstrong et al., 1998
AMPA (GluR2): agonist, antagonist, and modulator complexes 2.1 Å Sun et al., 2002
Kainate R (GluR5): antagonist complexes 1.74 Å Mayer et al., 2006
Kainate R (GluR6): agonist complexes 1.65 Å Mayer, 2005a
NMDAR (NR1/NR2A heteromer) 1.88 Å Furukawa et al., 2005
Potassium channels: whole channels Rat Kv1.2/Kvβ complex 2.9 Å Long et al., 2005
Archaeal voltage-gated channel KvAP 3.2 Å Jiang et al., 2003
Bacterial potassium channel: KcsA 2.0 Å Zhou et al., 2001
Bacterial potassium channel MthK 3.3 Å Jiang et al., 2002
Bacterial inward rectifier KirBac1.1 3.65 Å Kuo et al., 2003
Bacterial nonselective cation channel NaK 2.4 Å Shi et al., 2006
Potassium channel intracellular domains and regulatory complexes Kv4.3/KChIP1 complex 3.2 Å Pioletti et al., 2006;
Wang et al., 2007
Kir3.1 intracellular domain 1.8 Å Nishida and MacKinnon, 2002
HERG PAS domain 2.6 Å Morais Cabral et al., 1998
SK channel intracellular domain: Ca2+/CaM complex 1.6 Å Schumacher et al., 2001
Voltage-gated calcium channels: intracellular domains CaVβ and CaVβ-AID complex 2.0 Å Chen et al., 2004;
Opatowsky et al., 2004;
Van Petegem et al., 2004
Ca2+/CaM-CaV1.2 IQ domain complex 2.0 Å Fallon et al., 2005;
Van Petegem et al., 2005
Cyclic nucleotide gated channels HCN2 Cyclic nucleotide binding domain/cAMP 2.0 Å Zagotta et al., 2003
HCN2 Cyclic nucleotide binding domain/cGMP 1.9 Å Zagotta et al., 2003
TRP Channels N-terminal Ankyrin repeat domain TRPV2 1.6 Å Jin et al., 2006;
McCleverty et al., 2006
TRPM7 kinase domain 2.4 Å Yamaguchi et al., 2001
Chloride channels: whole channel Bacterial chloride channel 3.0 Å Dutzler et al., 2002
Chloride channel intracellular domains Human ClC-5 CBS domain (ATP and ADP) 2.3 Å Meyer et al., 2007
Ca2+ ATPase No nucleotide, with calcium 2.6 Å Toyoshima et al., 2000
Magnesium fluoride 2.3 Å Toyoshima et al., 2004
G protein-coupled receptors Rhodopsin 2.8 Å Palczewski et al., 2000
G protein-coupled receptors: extracellular domains mGluR1 ligand binding domain: apo and gluatmate complex 2.2 Å Kunishima et al., 2000
mGluR1 ligand binding domain: antagonist complex 3.3 Å Tsuchiya et al., 2002
Amino acid transporters Archaeal glutamate transporter 3.5 Å Yernool et al., 2004
Archaeal asparate transporter 1.65 Å Yamashita et al., 2005
a

Where multiple similar structures are solved, the highest resolution obtained is indicated.