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 …

[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 …

Molecular mechanism of ligand gating and opening of NMDA receptor

TH Chou, M Epstein, RG Fritzemeier, NS Akins… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Glutamate transmission and activation of ionotropic glutamate receptors are the fundamental
means by which neurons control their excitability and neuroplasticity. The N-methyl-d …

Glioma synapses recruit mechanisms of adaptive plasticity

KR Taylor, T Barron, A Hui, A Spitzer, B Yalçin, AE Ivec… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The role of the nervous system in the regulation of cancer is increasingly appreciated. In
gliomas, neuronal activity drives tumour progression through paracrine signalling factors …

Modulation of GluA2–γ5 synaptic complex desensitization, polyamine block and antiepileptic perampanel inhibition by auxiliary subunit cornichon-2

SP Gangwar, LY Yen, MV Yelshanskaya… - Nature Structural & …, 2023 - nature.com
Synaptic complexes of α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid (AMPA)
receptors (AMPARs) with auxiliary subunits mediate most excitatory neurotransmission and …

Hippocampal AMPA receptor assemblies and mechanism of allosteric inhibition

J Yu, P Rao, S Clark, J Mitra, T Ha, E Gouaux - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
AMPA-selective glutamate receptors mediate the transduction of signals between the
neuronal circuits of the hippocampus. The trafficking, localization, kinetics and …

A Noelin-organized extracellular network of proteins required for constitutive and context-dependent anchoring of AMPA-receptors

S Boudkkazi, J Schwenk, N Nakaya, A Brechet… - Neuron, 2023 - cell.com
Information processing and storage in the brain rely on AMPA-receptors (AMPARs) and their
context-dependent dynamics in synapses and extra-synaptic sites. We found that distribution …

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+ …

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 …