Article
Two regions in the N-terminal domain of ionotropic glutamate receptor 3 form the subunit oligomerization interfaces that control subtype-specific receptor assembly.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 15 Apr 2005
Ayalon Gai, Segev Eitan, Elgavish Sharona, Stern-Bach Yael
Abstract excerpt
The N-terminal domain (NTD) of alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methylisoxazolepropionate (AMPA) and kainate glutamate receptors plays an important role in controlling subtype specific receptor assembly. To identify NTD subdomains involved in this process we generated AMPA glutamate receptor 3 (GluR3) mutants having intra-NTD substitutions with the corresponding regions of the kainate receptor GluR6 and tested their...
Topics
- Alanine
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Blotting, Western
- Cell Membrane
- Cysteine
- Dimerization
- Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
- Electrophysiology
- Gene Deletion
- Immunoprecipitation
