The residence time of GABA ARs at inhibitory synapses is determined by direct binding of the receptor α1 subunit to gephyrin

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 41, 2011, Pages 14677-14687

  Mukherjee, Jayanta ^a   Kretschmannova, Karla ^a   Gouzer, Geraldine ^b   Maric, Hans Michael ^c   Ramsden, Sarah ^d   Tretter, Verena ^e   Harvey, Kirsten ^d   Davies, Paul A ^a   Triller, Antoine ^b   Schindelin, Hermann ^c   Moss, Stephen J ^a,f  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^f UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR ALPHA1; GEPHYRIN; THREONINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; IN VITRO STUDY; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; RECEPTOR BINDING; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION;

ANIMALS; CALORIMETRY; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MUTATION; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PROTEIN BINDING; RATS; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; SYNAPSES; THREONINE; TRANSFECTION; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

EID: 80054044911     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2001-11.2011     Document Type: Article

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