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CURRENT OPINION IN STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY
Volume 41, Issue -, Pages 119-127Publisher
CURRENT BIOLOGY LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2016.07.002
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Chemical transmission at excitatory synapses in the brain is mediated by a diverse family of glutamate receptor ion channels (iGluRs), tetrameric membrane protein assemblies of molecular weight 400-600 kDa. Until recently, structural information for intact iGluRs was limited to biochemically tractable homomeric receptors trapped in different conformational states. These provided key insights into the mechanisms of iGluR activation and desensitization. Structures of heteromeric AMPA and NMDA receptors, the major iGluR families in the brain, together with long awaited cryo-EM structures of an AMPA receptor TARP complex, expand this picture and reveal surprising conformational diversity, raising many fundamental and controversial questions.
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