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Human serotonin transporter variants display altered sensitivity to protein kinase G and p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 9 Aug 2005
Prasad Harish C, Zhu Chong-Bin, McCauley Jacob L, Samuvel Devadoss J, Ramamoorthy Sammanda, Shelton Richard C, Hewlett William A, Sutcliffe James S, Blakely Randy D
Abstract excerpt
Human serotonin [5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT)] transporters (hSERT, 5HTT, and SLC6A4) inactivate 5-HT after release and are prominent targets for therapeutic intervention in mood, anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive disorders. Multiple hSERT coding variants have been identified, although to date no comprehensive functional analysis of these variants has been reported. We transfected hSERT or 10 hSERT coding variants...
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