Glutamate receptor ion channels: structure, regulation, and function

SF Traynelis, LP Wollmuth, CJ McBain, FS Menniti… - Pharmacological …, 2010 - ASPET
The mammalian ionotropic glutamate receptor family encodes 18 gene products that
coassemble to form ligand-gated ion channels containing an agonist recognition site, a …

Molecular basis of NMDA receptor functional diversity

P Paoletti - European Journal of Neuroscience, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
NMDA receptors (NMDARs) form glutamate‐gated ion channels widely expressed in the
central nervous system and highly permeable to calcium ions. NMDARs have always …

NMDA receptors in the central nervous system

KB Hansen, F Yi, RE Perszyk, FS Menniti… - … receptors: Methods and …, 2017 - Springer
NMDA-type glutamate receptors are ligand-gated ion channels that mediate a major
component of excitatory neurotransmission in the central nervous system (CNS). They are …

Synaptic GluN2A-containing NMDA receptors: from physiology to pathological synaptic plasticity

L Franchini, N Carrano, M Di Luca… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
N-Methyl-d-Aspartate Receptors (NMDARs) are ionotropic glutamate-gated receptors.
NMDARs are tetramers composed by several homologous subunits of GluN1-, GluN2-, or …

Molecular basis of positive allosteric modulation of GluN2B NMDA receptors by polyamines

L Mony, S Zhu, S Carvalho, P Paoletti - The EMBO journal, 2011 - embopress.org
NMDA receptors (NMDARs) form glutamate‐gated ion channels that have central roles in
neuronal communication and plasticity throughout the brain. Dysfunctions of NMDARs are …

An increase in synaptic NMDA receptors in the insular cortex contributes to neuropathic pain

S Qiu, T Chen, K Koga, Y Guo, H Xu, Q Song… - Science …, 2013 - science.org
Neurons in the insular cortex are activated by acute and chronic pain, and inhibition of
neuronal activity in the insular cortex has analgesic effects. We found that in a mouse model …

Glutamate receptor homologs in plants: functions and evolutionary origins

MB Price, J Jelesko, S Okumoto - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2012 - frontiersin.org
The plant glutamate-like receptor homologs (GLRs) are homologs of mammalian ionotropic
glutamate receptors (iGluRs) which were discovered more than 10 years ago, and are …

Control of assembly and function of glutamate receptors by the amino-terminal domain

KB Hansen, H Furukawa, SF Traynelis - Molecular pharmacology, 2010 - ASPET
The extracellular amino-terminal domains (ATDs) of the ionotropic glutamate receptor
subunits form a semiautonomous component of all glutamate receptors that resides distal to …

Functions of intrinsic disorder in transmembrane proteins

M Kjaergaard, BB Kragelund - Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 2017 - Springer
Intrinsic disorder is common in integral membrane proteins, particularly in the intracellular
domains. Despite this observation, these domains are not always recognized as being …

ER to synapse trafficking of NMDA receptors

M Horak, RS Petralia, M Kaniakova… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Glutamate is the major excitatory neurotransmitter in the mammalian central nervous system.
There are three distinct subtypes of ionotropic glutamate receptors (GluRs) that have been …