Structure, function, and pharmacology of glutamate receptor ion channels

KB Hansen, LP Wollmuth, D Bowie, H Furukawa… - Pharmacological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Many physiologic effects of l-glutamate, the major excitatory neurotransmitter in the
mammalian central nervous system, are mediated via signaling by ionotropic glutamate …

Developmental and epileptic encephalopathies: from genetic heterogeneity to phenotypic continuum

R Guerrini, V Conti, M Mantegazza… - Physiological …, 2023 - journals.physiology.org
Developmental and epileptic encephalopathies (DEEs) are a heterogeneous group of
disorders characterized by early-onset, often severe epileptic seizures and EEG …

GRIN2A (NR2A): a gene contributing to glutamatergic involvement in schizophrenia

PJ Harrison, DM Bannerman - Molecular psychiatry, 2023 - nature.com
Involvement of the glutamate system, particularly N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor
hypofunction, has long been postulated to be part of the pathophysiology of schizophrenia …

Classification of missense variants in the N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor GRIN gene family as gain- or loss-of-function

SJ Myers, H Yuan, RE Perszyk, J Zhang… - Human Molecular …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Advances in sequencing technology have generated a large amount of genetic data from
patients with neurological conditions. These data have provided diagnosis of many rare …

Clinical and therapeutic significance of genetic variation in the GRIN gene family encoding NMDARs

TA Benke, K Park, I Krey, CR Camp, R Song… - …, 2021 - Elsevier
Considerable genetic variation of N-methyl-d-aspartate receptors (NMDARs) has recently
become apparent, with many hundreds of de novo variants identified through widely …

Roles of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors (NMDARs) in epilepsy

S Chen, D Xu, L Fan, Z Fang, X Wang… - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological disorders characterized by recurrent
seizures. The mechanism of epilepsy remains unclear and previous studies suggest that N …

Advances in epilepsy: mechanisms, clinical trials, and drug therapies

T Hu, J Zhang, J Wang, L Sha, Y Xia… - Journal of medicinal …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Epilepsy is a common disease of the nervous system characterized by transient brain
dysfunction caused by an abnormal electrical discharge from the brain neurons. The …

GRIN2A Variants Associated With Idiopathic Generalized Epilepsies

XR Liu, XX Xu, SM Lin, CY Fan, TT Ye… - Frontiers in molecular …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Objective: The objective of this study is to explore the role of GRIN2A gene in idiopathic
generalized epilepsies and the potential underlying mechanism for phenotypic variation …

Mouse mutants in schizophrenia risk genes GRIN2A and AKAP11 show EEG abnormalities in common with schizophrenia patients

LE Herzog, L Wang, E Yu, S Choi, Z Farsi… - Translational …, 2023 - nature.com
Schizophrenia is a heterogeneous psychiatric disorder with a strong genetic basis, whose
etiology and pathophysiology remain poorly understood. Exome sequencing studies have …

Functional effects of disease-associated variants reveal that the S1–M1 linker of the NMDA receptor critically controls channel opening

L Xie, MJ McDaniel, RE Perszyk, S Kim… - Cellular and Molecular …, 2023 - Springer
The short pre-M1 helix within the S1–M1 linker (also referred to as the pre-M1 linker)
between the agonist-binding domain (ABD, S1) and the M1 transmembrane helix of the …