Description
Product Characteristics:
GAD-65 and GAD-67, glutamate decarboxylases, function to catalyze the production of GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid). In the central nervous system GABA functions as the main inhibitory transmitter by increasing a Cl- conductance that inhibits neuronal firing. GABA has been shown to activate both ionotropic (GABAA) and metabotropic (GABAB) receptors as well as a third class of receptors called GABAC. Both GABAA and GABAC are ligand-gated ion channels, however, they are structurally and functionally distinct. Members of the GABAA receptor family include GABAA R Alpha 1-6, GABAA R Beta 1-3, GABAA R Gamma 1-3, GABAA R Delta, GABAA R Epsilon, GABAA R Zeta 1 and GABAA R Zeta 2. The GABAB family is composed of GABAB R1 Alpha and GABAB R1 Beta. GABA transporters have also been identified and include GABA T-1, GABA T-2 and GABA T-3 (also designated GAT-1, -2, and -3). The GABA transporters function to terminate GABA action.
Subcellular location: Cell membrane
Synonyms: GABAA receptor epsilon, GABAA receptor subunit epsilon, Gabre, Gamma aminobutyric acid GABA A receptor epsilon, Gamma aminobutyric acid receptor subunit epsilon, Gamma-aminobutyric acid receptor subunit epsilon, GBRE_HUMAN.
Target Information: The product of this gene belongs to the ligand-gated ionic channel (TC 1.A.9) family. It encodes the gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) A receptor which is a multisubunit chloride channel that mediates the fastest inhibitory synaptic transmission in the central nervous system. This gene encodes an epsilon subunit. It is mapped to chromosome Xq28 in a cluster comprised of genes encoding alpha 3, beta 4 and theta subunits of the same receptor. Alternatively spliced transcript variants have been identified, but only one is thought to encode a protein. [provided by RefSeq, Oct 2008]