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ReviewCurrent opinion in neurobiology2012

The regulation of glutamate receptor trafficking and function by TARPs and other transmembrane auxiliary subunits.

Christoph Straub, Susumu Tomita

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Review in Current opinion in neurobiology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 80 papers.

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80citing papers in PubMed
4.3field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

80 citing papers in PubMed, 115 citations in OpenAlex.

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  19. The auxiliary glutamate receptor subunit dSol-1 promotes presynaptic neurotransmitter release and homeostatic potentiation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020
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  20. GRIP1 regulates synaptic plasticity and learning and memory.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Christoph StraubProgram in Cellular Neuroscience, Neurodegeneration and Repair (CNNR), Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, United States.
Susumu Tomita
Yale University · US

Funding

Regulation of glutamate receptors by calcium-dependent protein kinasesR01MH077939 · NIMH · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI TOMITA, SUSUMU · 2008 to 2023
$5.2M
Mechanism for Regulating Kainate-Type Glutamate Receptor ActivityR01MH085080 · NIMH · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI TOMITA, SUSUMU · 2010 to 2014
$2.0M
Regulation of glutamate receptors by calcium-dependent protein kinaseR56MH077939 · NIMH · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI TOMITA, SUSUMU · 2013 to 2014
$833k
NIMH NIH HHS MH077939NIMH NIH HHS MH085080NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH077939NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH085080NIMH NIH HHS R56 MH077939
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

At excitatory synapses in the brain, glutamate released from nerve terminals binds to glutamate receptors to mediate signaling between neurons. Glutamate receptors expressed in heterologous cells show ion channel activity. Recently, native glutamate receptors were shown to contain auxiliary subunits that modulate the trafficking and/or channel properties. The AMPA receptor (AMPAR) can contain TARP and CNIHs as the auxiliary subunits, whereas kainate receptor (KAR) can contain the Neto auxiliary subunit. Each of these auxiliary subunits uniquely modulates the glutamate receptors, and determines properties of native glutamate receptors. A thorough elucidation of the properties of native glutamate receptor complexes is indispensable for the understanding of the molecular machinery that regulates glutamate receptors and excitatory synaptic transmission in the brain.

Indexed as

AnimalsModels, BiologicalNuclear ProteinsProtein SubunitsProtein TransportReceptors, GlutamateNuclear ProteinsProtein SubunitsReceptors, GlutamateTARP

Identifiers

PMID21993243
PMCPMC3265624
OpenAlexW2021624177

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