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ArticleFrontiers in molecular neuroscience2008

GABA(A) Receptor Dynamics and Constructing GABAergic Synapses.

Verena Tretter, Stephen J Moss

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Article in Frontiers in molecular neuroscience, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers.

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39 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors.

Verena TretterDepartment of Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Stephen J Moss

Funding

The Synthesis of GABA in Epileptic BrainP01NS054900 · NINDS · CHILDREN'S HOSP OF PHILADELPHIA · PI COULTER, DOUGLAS A · 2007 to 2011
$6.4M
Origin and Mechanism of Promiscuous Prion StrainsR01NS046478 · NINDS · DARTMOUTH COLLEGE · PI SUPATTAPONE, SURACHAI · 2004 to 2017
$5.0M
NINDS NIH HHS P01 NS054900NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS046478
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

GABA(A) receptors are located on the majority of neurons in the central and peripheral nervous system, where they mediate important actions of the neurotransmitter gamma-aminobutyric acid. Early in development the trophic properties of GABA allow a healthy development of the nervous system. Most neurons have a high intracellular Cl-concentration early in life due to the late functional expression of the Cl-pump KCC2, therefore GABA has excitatory effects at this stage. Upon higher expression and activation of KCC2 GABA takes on its inhibitory effects while glutamate functions as the major excitatory neurotransmitter. Like all multisubunit membrane proteins the GABA(A) receptor is assembled in the ER and travels through the Golgi and remaining secretory pathway to the cell surface, where it mediates GABA actions either directly at the synapses or at extrasynaptic sites responding to ambient GABA to provide a basal tonic inhibitory state. In order to adapt to changing needs and information states, the GABAergic system is highly dynamic. That includes subtype specific trafficking to different locations in the cell, regulation of mobility by interaction with scaffold molecules, posttranslational modifications, that either directly affect channel function or the interaction with other proteins and finally the dynamic exchange between surface and intracellular receptor pools, that either prepare receptors for recycling to the surface or degradation. Here we give an overview of the current understanding of GABA(A) receptor functional and molecular dynamics that play a major part in maintaining the balance between excitation and inhibition and in changes in network activity.

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GABAA receptorinhibitionreceptor clusteringreceptor trafficking

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PMID18946540
PMCPMC2526003

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