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Biochemical studies of the structure and function of theN-methyl-D-aspartate subtype of glutamate receptors

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TheN-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) subtype of glutamate receptors plays a key role in synaptic transmission, synaptic plasticity, synaptogenesis, and excitotocity in the mammalian central nervous system. The NMDA receptor channel is formed from two gene products from two glutamate receptor subunit families, termed NR1 and NR2. Although the subunit composition of native NMDA receptors is incompletely understood, electrophysiological studies using recombinant receptors suggest that functional NMDA receptors consist of heteromers containing combinations of NR1, which is essential for channel activity, and NR2, which modulates the properties of the channels. The lack of agonists or antagonists selective for a given subunit of NMDA receptors has made it difficult to understand the subunit expression, subunit composition, and posttranslational modification mechanisms of native NMDA receptors. Therefore, most studies on NMDA receptors that examine regional expression and ontogeny have been focused at the level of the mRNAs encoding the different subunits using northern blotting, ribonuclease protection, andin situ hybridization techniques. However, the data from these studies do not provide clear information about the resultant subunit protein. To directly examine the protein product of the NMDA receptor subunit genes, the development of subunit-specific antibodies using peptides and fusion proteins has provided a good approach for localizing, quantifying, and characterizing the receptor subunits in tissues and transfected cell lines, and to study the subunit composition and the functional effects of posttranslational processing of the NMDA subunits, particularly the phosphorylation profiles of NMDA glutamate receptors.

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  1. Anthone W. Dunah

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    Anthone W. Dunah, Robert P. Yasuda, Jianhong Luo, Yuehua Wang, Kate L. Prybylowski & Barry B. Wolfe

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Dunah, A.W., Yasuda, R.P., Luo, J. et al. Biochemical studies of the structure and function of theN-methyl-D-aspartate subtype of glutamate receptors. Mol Neurobiol 19, 151–179 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02743658

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