ASSEMBLY OF THE INHIBITORY GLYCINE RECEPTOR - IDENTIFICATION OF AMINO-ACID-SEQUENCE MOTIFS GOVERNING SUBUNIT STOICHIOMETRY

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KUHSE, J
LAUBE, B
MAGALEI, D
BETZ, H
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[1] Department of Neurochemistry Max-Planck-Institute for Brain Research, 60528 Frankfurt
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10.1016/0896-6273(93)90218-G
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Q189 [神经科学];
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071006 ;
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The inhibitory glycine receptor (GlyR) is a pentameric protein composed of two types (alpha and beta) of membrane-spanning subunits. Coexpression in Xenopus oocytes of a low affinity mutant of the alpha2 subunit with the alpha1 and beta subunits indicated that GlyRs assembled from alpha1 and alpha2 polypeptides contain variable subunit ratios, whereas alpha/beta hetero-oligomers have an invariant (3:2) stoichiometry. Analysis of different alpha/beta chimeric constructs revealed that this difference in assembly behavior is mediated by the N-terminal extracellular regions of the receptor subunits. Substitution of residues diverging between the alpha and beta subunits identified combinations of sequence motifs determining subunit stoichiometry.
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