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SUBMITTER: Ng D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2652390 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ng David D Pitcher Graham M GM Szilard Rachel K RK Sertié Andréa A Kanisek Marijana M Clapcote Steven J SJ Lipina Tatiana T Kalia Lorraine V LV Joo Daisy D McKerlie Colin C Cortez Miguel M Roder John C JC Salter Michael W MW McInnes Roderick R RR
PLoS biology 20090201 2
The N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR), a major excitatory ligand-gated ion channel in the central nervous system (CNS), is a principal mediator of synaptic plasticity. Here we report that neuropilin tolloid-like 1 (Neto1), a complement C1r/C1s, Uegf, Bmp1 (CUB) domain-containing transmembrane protein, is a novel component of the NMDAR complex critical for maintaining the abundance of NR2A-containing NMDARs in the postsynaptic density. Neto1-null mice have depressed long-term potentiation (LT ...[more]