The promiscuous role of the epsilon subunit in GABAA receptor biogenesis

Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 610-621

  Bollan, Karen A ^a   Baur, Roland ^b   Hales, Tim G ^c   Sigel, Erwin ^b   Connolly, Christopher N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Assembly; Biogenesis; Cell surface; Endoplasmic reticulum; Epsilon; GABA(A) receptor; Spontaneous; Stoichiometry

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR ALPHA1; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR BETA2; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR EPSILON; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR GAMMA2; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL SURFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECEPTOR BINDING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; CELL MEMBRANE; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HUMANS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; OOCYTES; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSFECTION; XENOPUS;

EID: 39649096940     PISSN: 10447431     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mcn.2007.12.011     Document Type: Article

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