************ The 9th Lab Seminar ***************************************

Title : X-ray structures of general anaesthetics bound to a pentameric 
ligand-gated ion channels
Hugues Nury, Catherine Van Renterghem, Yun Weng, Alphonso Tran, 
Marc Baaden, Virginie Dufresne, Jean-Pierre Changeux, James M. Sonner, 
Marc Delarue and Pierre-Jean Corringer: Nature, 469, 428-431 (2011)

Speaker : Masayoshi Takayanagi

Date : Thu. Oct. 31th, 1:30 pm

Place : Seminar room of 4F, Graduate School of Information Science

Abstract :
First, review the theories of molecular mechanisms of anaesthetics. Then, 
review a recent paper elucidating the X-ray structure of anaesthetics 
bound to a ligand-gated ion channel. iNature, 469 428- (2011))


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