Structure, function, and pharmacology of glutamate receptor ion channels

KB Hansen, LP Wollmuth, D Bowie, H Furukawa… - Pharmacological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Many physiologic effects of l-glutamate, the major excitatory neurotransmitter in the
mammalian central nervous system, are mediated via signaling by ionotropic glutamate …

Structural and functional architecture of AMPA-type glutamate receptors and their auxiliary proteins

IH Greger, JF Watson, SG Cull-Candy - Neuron, 2017 - cell.com
AMPA receptors (AMPARs) are tetrameric ion channels that together with other ionotropic
glutamate receptors (iGluRs), the NMDA and kainate receptors, mediate a majority of …

Structural mobility tunes signalling of the GluA1 AMPA glutamate receptor

D Zhang, J Ivica, JM Krieger, H Ho, K Yamashita… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
AMPA glutamate receptors (AMPARs), the primary mediators of excitatory
neurotransmission in the brain, are either GluA2 subunit-containing and thus Ca2+ …

[HTML][HTML] AMPA receptor trafficking and LTP: Carboxy-termini, amino-termini and TARPs

J Díaz-Alonso, RA Nicoll - Neuropharmacology, 2021 - Elsevier
AMPA receptors (AMPARs) are fundamental elements in excitatory synaptic transmission
and synaptic plasticity in the CNS. Long term potentiation (LTP), a form of synaptic plasticity …

Subsynaptic positioning of AMPARs by LRRTM2 controls synaptic strength

AM Ramsey, AH Tang, TA LeGates, XZ Gou… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Recent evidence suggests that nano-organization of proteins within synapses may control
the strength of communication between neurons in the brain. The unique subsynaptic …

AMPA receptor structure and auxiliary subunits

A Kamalova, T Nakagawa - The Journal of physiology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Fast excitatory synaptic transmission in the mammalian brain is largely mediated by AMPA‐
type ionotropic glutamate receptors (AMPARs), which are activated by the neurotransmitter …

Phosphorylation-Dependent Regulation of Ca2+-Permeable AMPA Receptors During Hippocampal Synaptic Plasticity

AM Purkey, ML Dell'Acqua - Frontiers in synaptic neuroscience, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Experience-dependent learning and memory require multiple forms of plasticity at
hippocampal and cortical synapses that are regulated by N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors …

Neuroligin-3 confines AMPA receptors into nanoclusters, thereby controlling synaptic strength at the calyx of Held synapses

Y Han, R Cao, L Qin, LY Chen, AH Tang, TC Südhof… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
The subsynaptic organization of postsynaptic neurotransmitter receptors into nanoclusters
that are aligned with presynaptic release sites is essential for the high fidelity of synaptic …

Structural mechanisms of gating in ionotropic glutamate receptors

EC Twomey, AI Sobolevsky - Biochemistry, 2018 - ACS Publications
Ionotropic glutamate receptors (iGluRs) are ligand-gated ion channels that mediate the
majority of excitatory neurotransmission in the central nervous system. iGluRs open their ion …

Positive AMPA receptor modulation in the treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders: A long and winding road

B Kadriu, L Musazzi, JN Johnston, LE Kalynchuk… - Drug discovery today, 2021 - Elsevier
Glutamatergic transmission is widely implicated in neuropsychiatric disorders, and the
discovery that ketamine elicits rapid-acting antidepressant effects by modulating α-amino-3 …