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Structural rearrangements of NR1/NR2A NMDA receptors during allosteric inhibition.
Neuron - 10 Jan 2008
Gielen Marc, Le Goff Anne, Stroebel David, Johnson Jon W, Neyton Jacques, Paoletti Pierre
Abstract excerpt
Ionotropic glutamate receptor (iGluR) subunits contain a large N-terminal domain (NTD) that precedes the agonist-binding domain (ABD) and participates in subunit oligomerization. In NMDA receptors (NMDARs), the NTDs of NR2A and NR2B subunits also form binding sites for the endogenous inhibitor Zn(2+) ion. Although these allosteric sites have been characterized in detail, the molecular mechanisms by which the NTDs...
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