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Neuronal toxicity in Caenorhabditis elegans from an editing site mutant in glutamate receptor channels.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience - 15 Sept 2004
Aronoff Rachel, Mellem Jerry E, Maricq Andres Villu, Sprengel Rolf, Seeburg Peter H
Abstract excerpt
Ionotropic glutamate receptors (iGluRs) in Caenorhabditis elegans are predicted to have high permeability for Ca2+ because of glutamine (Q) residues in the pore loop. This contrasts to the low Ca2+ permeability of similar iGluRs in principal neurons of mammals, because of an edited arginine (R) at the critical pore position in at least one channel subunit. Here, we introduced the R residue into the pore loop of a...
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