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SUBMITTER: Andrija Sente
PROVIDER: EMPIAR-10914 | biostudies-other |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Sente Andrija A Desai Rooma R Naydenova Katerina K Malinauskas Tomas T Jounaidi Youssef Y Miehling Jonas J Zhou Xiaojuan X Masiulis Simonas S Hardwick Steven W SW Chirgadze Dimitri Y DY Miller Keith W KW Aricescu A Radu AR
Nature 20220330 7904
Type A γ-aminobutyric acid receptors (GABA<sub>A</sub>Rs) are pentameric ligand-gated chloride channels that mediate fast inhibitory signalling in neural circuits<sup>1,2</sup> and can be modulated by essential medicines including general anaesthetics and benzodiazepines<sup>3</sup>. Human GABA<sub>A</sub>R subunits are encoded by 19 paralogous genes that can, in theory, give rise to 495,235 receptor types. However, the principles that govern the formation of pentamers, the permutational landsca ...[more]