GABRA6
GABRA6
Protein-coding gene in the species Homo sapiens
Gamma-aminobutyric acid receptor subunit alpha-6 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the GABRA6 gene.[5][6]
Quick Facts Identifiers, Aliases ...
Close
GABA is the major inhibitory neurotransmitter in the mammalian brain where it acts at GABA-A receptors, which are ligand-gated chloride channels. Chloride conductance of these channels can be modulated by agents such as benzodiazepines that bind to the GABA-A receptor. At least 16 distinct subunits of GABA-A receptors have been identified.[6]
One study found a genetic variant in the gene to be associated with the personality trait neuroticism.[7]
- "Human PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
- "Mouse PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
- Hicks AA, Bailey ME, Riley BP, Kamphuis W, Siciliano MJ, Johnson KJ, Darlison MG (Aug 1994). "Further evidence for clustering of human GABAA receptor subunit genes: localization of the alpha 6-subunit gene (GABRA6) to distal chromosome 5q by linkage analysis". Genomics. 20 (2): 285–288. doi:10.1006/geno.1994.1167. PMID 8020978.
- Srijan Sen; Sandra Villafuerte; Randolph Nesse; Scott F. Stoltenberg; Jeffrey Hopcian; Lillian Gleiberman; Alan Weder & Margit Burmeister (February 2004). "Serotonin transporter and GABAA alpha 6 receptor variants are associated with neuroticism". Biological Psychiatry. 55 (3): 244–249. doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2003.08.006. PMID 14744464. S2CID 7244510.
- Tögel M, Mossier B, Fuchs K, Sieghart W (1994). "gamma-Aminobutyric acidA receptors displaying association of gamma 3-subunits with beta 2/3 and different alpha-subunits exhibit unique pharmacological properties". J. Biol. Chem. 269 (17): 12993–12998. doi:10.1016/S0021-9258(18)99974-6. PMID 8175718.
- Hadingham KL, Garrett EM, Wafford KA, et al. (1996). "Cloning of cDNAs encoding the human gamma-aminobutyric acid type A receptor alpha 6 subunit and characterization of the pharmacology of alpha 6-containing receptors". Mol. Pharmacol. 49 (2): 253–259. PMID 8632757.
- Russek SJ (1999). "Evolution of GABA(A) receptor diversity in the human genome". Gene. 227 (2): 213–222. doi:10.1016/S0378-1119(98)00594-0. PMID 10023064.
- Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, et al. (2003). "Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899–16903. Bibcode:2002PNAS...9916899M. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMC 139241. PMID 12477932.
- Ota T, Suzuki Y, Nishikawa T, et al. (2004). "Complete sequencing and characterization of 21,243 full-length human cDNAs". Nat. Genet. 36 (1): 40–45. doi:10.1038/ng1285. PMID 14702039.
- Sen S, Villafuerte S, Nesse R, et al. (2004). "Serotonin transporter and GABAA alpha 6 receptor variants are associated with neuroticism". Biol. Psychiatry. 55 (3): 244–249. doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2003.08.006. PMID 14744464. S2CID 7244510.
- Peran M, Hooper H, Rayner SL, et al. (2004). "GABAA receptor alpha1 and alpha6 subunits mediate cell surface anchoring in cultured cells". Neurosci. Lett. 364 (2): 67–70. doi:10.1016/j.neulet.2004.03.081. PMID 15196679. S2CID 54314537.
- Uhart M, McCaul ME, Oswald LM, et al. (2005). "GABRA6 gene polymorphism and an attenuated stress response". Mol. Psychiatry. 9 (11): 998–1006. doi:10.1038/sj.mp.4001535. PMID 15197399.
- Wang W, Stock RE, Gronostajski RM, et al. (2005). "A role for nuclear factor I in the intrinsic control of cerebellar granule neuron gene expression". J. Biol. Chem. 279 (51): 53491–53497. doi:10.1074/jbc.M410370200. PMID 15466411.
- Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA, et al. (2004). "The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC)". Genome Res. 14 (10B): 2121–2127. doi:10.1101/gr.2596504. PMC 528928. PMID 15489334.
- Kimura K, Wakamatsu A, Suzuki Y, et al. (2006). "Diversification of transcriptional modulation: large-scale identification and characterization of putative alternative promoters of human genes". Genome Res. 16 (1): 55–65. doi:10.1101/gr.4039406. PMC 1356129. PMID 16344560.
- Lucht M, Barnow S, Schroeder W, et al. (2006). "Negative perceived paternal parenting is associated with dopamine D2 receptor exon 8 and GABA(A) alpha 6 receptor variants: an explorative study". Am. J. Med. Genet. B Neuropsychiatr. Genet. 141 (2): 167–172. doi:10.1002/ajmg.b.30255. PMID 16402352. S2CID 9675791.
- Park CS, Park SY, Lee CS, et al. (2007). "Association between alcoholism and the genetic polymorphisms of the GABAA receptor genes on chromosome 5q33-34 in Korean population". J. Korean Med. Sci. 21 (3): 533–538. doi:10.3346/jkms.2006.21.3.533. PMC 2729963. PMID 16778401.
- Kobayashi Y, Akiyoshi J, Kanehisa M, et al. (2007). "Lack of polymorphism in genes encoding mGluR 7, mGluR 8, GABA(A) receptor alfa-6 subunit and nociceptin/orphanin FQ receptor and panic disorder". Psychiatr. Genet. 17 (1): 9. doi:10.1097/YPG.0b013e32801118bc. PMID 17167337.
- Lee YC, Wang HP, Chiu HM, et al. (2007). "GABRA6 genetic polymorphism is associated with the risk of functional heartburn in Chinese". J. Gastroenterol. Hepatol. 22 (2): 227–233. doi:10.1111/j.1440-1746.2006.04441.x. PMID 17295876. S2CID 24860500.
- GABRA6+protein,+human at the U.S. National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
This article incorporates text from the United States National Library of Medicine, which is in the public domain.
 | This membrane protein–related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |