The neuroactive steroid pregnenolone sulfate stimulates trafficking of functional N-methyl D-aspartate receptors to the cell surface via a noncanonical, G protein, and Ca2+-dependent mechanism

Molecular Pharmacology

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 261-274

  Kostakis, Emmanuel ^a   Smith, Conor ^a   Jang, Ming Kuei ^a   Martin, Stella C ^a   Richards, Kyle G ^a   Russek, Shelley J ^a   Gibbs, Terrell T ^a   Farb, David H ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; ION CHANNEL; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 2A; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 2B; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 2D; PERTUSSIS TOXIN; PREGNENOLONE SULFATE;

ALLOSTERISM; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOTINYLATION; BRAIN CELL; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL SURFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EXPOSURE; DRUG POTENTIATION; EXOCYTOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CELLS, CULTURED; EXOCYTOSIS; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; N-METHYLASPARTATE; NEURONS; OOCYTES; PREGNENOLONE; PROTEIN KINASE C; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RATS; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; RECEPTORS, SIGMA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 84880615220     PISSN: 0026895X     EISSN: 15210111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1124/mol.113.085696     Document Type: Article

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