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Altered G-protein coupling in an mGluR6 point mutant associated with congenital stationary night blindness.
Molecular pharmacology - 1 Nov 2009
Beqollari Donald, Betzenhauser Matthew J, Kammermeier Paul J
Abstract excerpt
The highly specialized metabotropic glutamate receptor type 6 (mGluR6) is postsynaptically localized and expressed only in the dendrites of ON bipolar cells. Upon activation of mGluR6 by glutamate released from photoreceptors, a nonselective cation channel is inhibited, causing these cells to hyperpolarize. Mutations in this gene have been implicated in the development of congenital stationary night blindness...
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