Yuchen Xu, Rui Song, Riley E Perszyk, Wenjuan Chen, Sukhan Kim, Kristen L Park, James P Allen, Kelsey A Nocilla, Jing Zhang, Wenshu XiangWei, Anel Tankovic, Ellington D McDaniels, Rehan Sheikh, Ruth K Mizu, Manish M Karamchandani, Chun Hu, Hirofumi Kusumoto, Joseph Pecha, Gerarda Cappuccio, John Gaitanis, Jennifer Sullivan, Vandana Shashi, Slave Petrovski, Robin-Tobias Jauss, Hyun Kyung Lee, Xiuhua Bozarth, David R Lynch, Ingo Helbig, Tyler Mark Pierson, Cornelius F Boerkoel, Scott J Myers, Johannes R Lemke, Timothy A Benke, Hongjie Yuan, Stephen F Traynelis
N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors (NMDARs) are members of the glutamate receptor family and participate in excitatory postsynaptic transmission throughout the central nervous system. Genetic variants in GRIN genes encoding NMDAR subunits are associated with a spectrum of neurological disorders. The M3 transmembrane helices of the NMDAR couple directly to the agonist-binding domains and form a helical bundle crossing in the closed receptors that occludes the pore. The M3 functions as a transduction element whose conformational change couples ligand binding to opening of an ion conducting pore...
March 28, 2024: Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences: CMLS