GLRA2

Glycine receptor alpha 2
Identifiers
Symbols	GLRA2 ; GLR
External IDs	OMIM: 305990 MGI: 95748 HomoloGene: 31070 IUPHAR: 424 ChEMBL: 5871 GeneCards: GLRA2 Gene
Gene ontology Molecular function • glycine binding • extracellular-glycine-gated chloride channel activity • transmitter-gated ion channel activity Cellular component • plasma membrane • integral component of plasma membrane • cell junction • chloride channel complex • postsynaptic membrane Biological process • ion transport • neuropeptide signaling pathway • synapse assembly • spinal cord development • ion transmembrane transport • response to amino acid • transmembrane transport • synaptic transmission, glycinergic • chloride transmembrane transport Sources: Amigo / QuickGO
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species	Human	Mouse
Entrez	2742	237213
Ensembl	ENSG00000101958	ENSMUSG00000018589
UniProt	P23416	Q7TNC8
RefSeq (mRNA)	NM_001118885	NM_183427
RefSeq (protein)	NP_001112357	NP_906272
Location (UCSC)	Chr X: 14.53 – 14.73 Mb	Chr X: 165.13 – 165.33 Mb
PubMed search

Glycine receptor subunit alpha-2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the GLRA2 gene.^[1]

See also

• Glycine receptor

References

1. "Entrez Gene: GLRA2 glycine receptor, alpha 2".

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. PMC 551735. 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. doi:10.1101/gr.6.12.1200. 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. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1096-8628(19980630)78:2<176::AID-AJMG16>3.0.CO;2-K. 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. doi:10.1097/00041444-200103000-00009. 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. PMC 139241. 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. PMC 1575261. 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. PMC 528928. 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.

External links

• GLRA2 protein, human at the US National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

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