Kainate receptors

A main group for rapid excitatory neurotransmission in the mammalian CNS

General references kainate receptors

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Fisahn A, Heinemann SF & McBain CJ (2005). The kainate receptor subunit GluR6 mediates metabotropic regulation of the slow and medium AHP currents in mouse hippocampal neurones. Journal of Physiology 562: 199-203. GluR6

Jaskolski F, Normand E, Mulle C & Coussen F (2005). Differential trafficking of GluR7 kainate receptor subunit splice variants. Journal of Biological Chemistry 280: 22968-76. GluR7

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Howe JR (1996). Homomeric and heteromeric ion channels formed from the kainate-type subunits GluR6 and KA2 have very small, but different, unitary conductances. Journal of Neurophysiology 76: 510-9. GluR6

Roche KW, Raymond LA, Blackstone C & Huganir RL (1994). Transmembrane topology of the glutamate receptor subunit GluR6. Journal of Biological Chemistry 269: 11679-82. GluR6

Wenthold RJ, Trumpy VA, Zhu WS & Petralia RS (1994). Biochemical and assembly properties of GluR6 and KA2, two members of the kainate receptor family, determined with subunit-specific antibodies. Journal of Biological Chemistry 269: 1332-9. GluR6

Egebjerg J & Heinemann SF (1993). Ca2+ permeability of unedited and edited versions of the kainate selective glutamate receptor GluR6. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 90: 755-9. GluR6

Hamassaki-Britto DE, Hermans-Borgmeyer I, Heinemann S & Hughes TE (1993). Expression of glutamate receptor genes in the mammalian retina: the localization of GluR1 through GluR7 mRNAs. Journal of Neuroscience 13: 1888-98. GluR7