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Ion channels opened by glutamate mediate fast cell-to-cell information transfer in the nervous system. The structure of a full-length tetrameric glutamate receptor is both confirmatory and revelatory.

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Figure 1: Structure of a full-length tetrameric glutamate receptor.

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  1. Lonnie P. Wollmuth is in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, and the Center for Nervous System Disorders, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794-5230, USA. lwollmuth@ms.cc.sunysb.edu,

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  2. Stephen F. Traynelis is in the Department of Pharmacology, Emory University School of Medicine, Rollins Research Center, Atlanta, Georgia 30322-3090, USA. strayne@emory.edu,

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Wollmuth, L., Traynelis, S. Excitatory view of a receptor. Nature 462, 729–731 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/462729a

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