GABRA4

GABRA4
Identifiers
Aliases GABRA4
External IDs MGI: 95616 HomoloGene: 631 GeneCards: GABRA4
Targeted by Drug
gaboxadol, isoguvacine, isonipecotic acid, muscimol, bretazenil, ro-15-4513, bicuculline, picrotoxin[1]
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez

2557

14397

Ensembl

ENSG00000109158

ENSMUSG00000029211

UniProt

P48169

Q9D6F4

RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_000809
NM_001204266
NM_001204267

NM_010251

RefSeq (protein)

NP_000800.2
NP_001191195.1
NP_001191196.1

NP_034381.1

Location (UCSC) Chr 4: 46.92 – 46.99 Mb Chr 5: 71.57 – 71.66 Mb
PubMed search [2] [3]
Wikidata
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Gamma-aminobutyric acid receptor subunit alpha-4 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the GABRA4 gene.[4][5]

GABA is the major inhibitory neurotransmitter in the mammalian brain where it acts at GABA-A receptors, which are ligand-gated chloride channels. Chloride conductance of these channels can be modulated by agents such as benzodiazepines that bind to the GABA-A receptor. At least 16 distinct subunits of GABA-A receptors have been identified.[5]

See also

References

  1. "Drugs that physically interact with Gamma-aminobutyric acid receptor subunit alpha-4 view/edit references on wikidata".
  2. "Human PubMed Reference:".
  3. "Mouse PubMed Reference:".
  4. McLean PJ, Farb DH, Russek SJ (Aug 1995). "Mapping of the alpha 4 subunit gene (GABRA4) to human chromosome 4 defines an alpha 2-alpha 4-beta 1-gamma 1 gene cluster: further evidence that modern GABAA receptor gene clusters are derived from an ancestral cluster". Genomics. 26 (3): 580–6. doi:10.1016/0888-7543(95)80178-O. PMID 7607683.
  5. 1 2 "Entrez Gene: GABRA4 gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) A receptor, alpha 4".

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