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Structure and functions of inhibitory and excitatory glycine receptors.
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences - 30 Apr 1999
Betz H, Kuhse J, Schmieden V, Laube B, Kirsch J, Harvey R J
Abstract excerpt
The strychnine-sensitive glycine receptor (GlyR) is a pentameric chloride channel protein that exists in several developmentally and regionally regulated isoforms in the CNS. These result from the differential expression of four genes encoding different variants (alpha 1-alpha 4) of the ligand-binding subunit of the GlyR. Their assembly with the structural beta subunit is governed by "assembly cassettes" within...
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