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SUBMITTER: Wellendorph P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2697712 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wellendorph P P Bräuner-Osborne H H
British journal of pharmacology 20090301 6
Family C of human G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) is constituted by eight metabotropic glutamate receptors, two gamma-aminobutyric acid type B (GABA(B1-2)) subunits forming the heterodimeric GABA(B) receptor, the calcium-sensing receptor, three taste1 receptors (T1R1-3), a promiscuous L-alpha;-amino acid receptor G-protein-coupled receptor family C, group 6, subtype A (GPRC6A) and seven orphan receptors. Aside from the orphan receptors, the family C GPCRs are dimeric receptors characterized ...[more]