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JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-LONDON
卷 599, 期 10, 页码 2605-2613出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1113/JP279026
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evolution; glutamate receptor; structure
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The research by Watkins and colleagues has played a crucial role in our understanding of excitatory synaptic transmission in the central nervous system of animals; recent studies have revealed unexpected ligand binding profiles for newly identified glutamate receptors; structural studies indicate that the biology of glutamate receptors is more complex than initially anticipated.
The identification of AMPA, kainate and NMDA glutamate receptor subtypes by Watkins and colleagues underlies much of our understanding of excitatory synaptic transmission in the central nervous system of animals. Ongoing large scale genome sequencing projects in species for which physiological analysis of receptor function is challenging are resulting in identification of numerous eukaryotic glutamate receptor ion channels in the animal kingdom of life. On the basis of sequence similarity, these are frequently classified into the three vertebrate subtypes, initially identified using subtype selective ligands. Recent work reveals unexpected ligand binding profiles for these newly identified glutamate receptors, for example, kainate receptors on which NMDA acts as a competitive antagonist, and high affinity homomeric glycine activated glutamate receptors. Structural studies reveal that only subtle changes in the ligand binding domain, often identified only in retrospect, underlie different patterns of ligand binding, and that the biology of glutamate receptors is more complex than first anticipated.
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