GLRA2

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Glycine receptor, alpha 2

Identifiers

External IDs

OMIM: 305990 MGI: 95748 HomoloGene: 31070

Gene ontology
Molecular Function:	• GABA-A receptor activity • glycine-inhibited chloride channel activity • ion channel activity • extracellular ligand-gated ion channel activity • glycine binding • extracellular-glycine-gated chloride channel activity • neurotransmitter receptor activity • chloride ion binding
Cellular Component:	• integral to plasma membrane • postsynaptic membrane
Biological Process:	• ion transport • chloride transport • neuropeptide signaling pathway

RNA expression pattern

More reference expression data

Orthologs

Human

Mouse

Refseq

NM_002063 (mRNA)
NP_002054 (protein)

NM_183427 (mRNA)
NP_906272 (protein)

Location

Chr X: 14.46 - 14.66 Mb

Chr X: 160.47 - 160.67 Mb

Pubmed search

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Glycine receptor, alpha 2, also known as GLRA2, is a human gene.^[1]

1 See also
2 References
3 Further reading
4 External links

[edit] See also

Glycine receptor

[edit] References

^ Entrez Gene: GLRA2 glycine receptor, alpha 2.

[edit] Further reading

Grenningloh G, Schmieden V, Schofield PR, et al. (1990). "Alpha subunit variants of the human glycine receptor: primary structures, functional expression and chromosomal localization of the corresponding genes.". EMBO J. 9 (3): 771-6. PMID 2155780.
Monani U, Burghes AH (1997). "Structure of the human alpha 2 subunit gene of the glycine receptor--use of vectorette and Alu-exon PCR.". Genome Res. 6 (12): 1200-6. PMID 8973915.
Cummings CJ, Dahle EJ, Zoghbi HY (1998). "Analysis of the genomic structure of the human glycine receptor alpha2 subunit gene and exclusion of this gene as a candidate for Rett syndrome.". Am. J. Med. Genet. 78 (2): 176-8. PMID 9674912.
Feng J, Craddock N, Jones IR, et al. (2001). "Systematic screening for mutations in the glycine receptor alpha2 subunit gene (GLRA2) in patients with schizophrenia and other psychiatric diseases.". Psychiatr. Genet. 11 (1): 45-8. PMID 11409700.
Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, et al. (2003). "Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences.". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899-903. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMID 12477932.
Davies DL, Crawford DK, Trudell JR, et al. (2004). "Multiple sites of ethanol action in alpha1 and alpha2 glycine receptors suggested by sensitivity to pressure antagonism.". J. Neurochem. 89 (5): 1175-85. doi:10.1111/j.1471-4159.2004.02390.x. PMID 15147510.
Miller PS, Harvey RJ, Smart TG (2005). "Differential agonist sensitivity of glycine receptor alpha2 subunit splice variants.". Br. J. Pharmacol. 143 (1): 19-26. doi:10.1038/sj.bjp.0705875. PMID 15302677.
Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA, et al. (2004). "The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC).". Genome Res. 14 (10B): 2121-7. doi:10.1101/gr.2596504. PMID 15489334.
Miller PS, Da Silva HM, Smart TG (2006). "Molecular basis for zinc potentiation at strychnine-sensitive glycine receptors.". J. Biol. Chem. 280 (45): 37877-84. doi:10.1074/jbc.M508303200. PMID 16144831.

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MeSH GLRA2+protein,+human

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v • d • e Ion channel, receptor: ligand-gated ion channels

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