Biology:CHRNB4

Short description: Protein-coding gene in the species Homo sapiens

Generic protein structure example

Neuronal acetylcholine receptor subunit beta-4 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the CHRNB4 gene.

See also

• Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor

Further reading

• "Ion-channel assembly". Trends Neurosci. 18 (6): 280–287. 1995. doi:10.1016/0166-2236(95)93915-K. PMID 7571003. 
• "Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors: from structure to brain function". Rev. Physiol. Biochem. Pharmacol.. Reviews of Physiology, Biochemistry and Pharmacology 147: 1–46. 2003. doi:10.1007/s10254-003-0005-1. ISBN 978-3-540-01365-5. PMID 12783266. 
• Tarroni P; Rubboli F; Chini B et al. (1992). "Neuronal-type nicotinic receptors in human neuroblastoma and small-cell lung carcinoma cell lines". FEBS Lett. 312 (1): 66–70. doi:10.1016/0014-5793(92)81411-E. PMID 1330682. 
• "Chromosomal localization of seven neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunit genes in humans". Genomics 13 (4): 962–967. 1992. doi:10.1016/0888-7543(92)90008-G. PMID 1505988. 
• Raimondi E; Rubboli F; Moralli D et al. (1992). "Chromosomal localization and physical linkage of the genes encoding the human alpha 3, alpha 5, and beta 4 neuronal nicotinic receptor subunits". Genomics 12 (4): 849–50. doi:10.1016/0888-7543(92)90324-L. PMID 1572664. 
• Boulter J; O'Shea-Greenfield A; Duvoisin RM et al. (1990). "Alpha 3, alpha 5, and beta 4: three members of the rat neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor-related gene family form a gene cluster". J. Biol. Chem. 265 (8): 4472–82. doi:10.1016/S0021-9258(19)39588-2. PMID 1689727. 
• "The role of the beta 4-subunit in determining the kinetic properties of rat neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine alpha 3-receptors". J. Physiol. 440: 95–112. 1992. doi:10.1113/jphysiol.1991.sp018698. PMID 1725184. 
• Elliott KJ; Ellis SB; Berckhan KJ et al. (1997). "Comparative structure of human neuronal alpha 2-alpha 7 and beta 2-beta 4 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunits and functional expression of the alpha 2, alpha 3, alpha 4, alpha 7, beta 2, and beta 4 subunits". J. Mol. Neurosci. 7 (3): 217–228. doi:10.1007/BF02736842. PMID 8906617. 
• Chavez-Noriega LE; Crona JH; Washburn MS et al. (1997). "Pharmacological characterization of recombinant human neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors h alpha 2 beta 2, h alpha 2 beta 4, h alpha 3 beta 2, h alpha 3 beta 4, h alpha 4 beta 2, h alpha 4 beta 4 and h alpha 7 expressed in Xenopus oocytes". J. Pharmacol. Exp. Ther. 280 (1): 346–56. PMID 8996215. 
• "Cloning and sequence of full-length cDNAs encoding the human neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) subunits beta3 and beta4 and expression of seven nAChR subunits in the human neuroblastoma cell line SH-SY5Y and/or IMR-32". FEBS Lett. 400 (3): 309–314. 1997. doi:10.1016/S0014-5793(96)01383-X. PMID 9009220. 
• "Expression of the alpha 7 subunit of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor in normal and myasthenic human thymuses". Cell. Mol. Biol. (Noisy-le-grand) 43 (3): 433–42. 1997. PMID 9193799. 
• ""Orphan" alpha6 nicotinic AChR subunit can form a functional heteromeric acetylcholine receptor". Mol. Pharmacol. 51 (2): 320–7. 1997. doi:10.1124/mol.51.2.320. PMID 9203638. 
• "alpha 5 Subunit alters desensitization, pharmacology, Ca++ permeability and Ca++ modulation of human neuronal alpha 3 nicotinic receptors". J. Pharmacol. Exp. Ther. 286 (1): 311–20. 1998. PMID 9655874. 
• Hellström-Lindahl E; Gorbounova O; Seiger A et al. (1998). "Regional distribution of nicotinic receptors during prenatal development of human brain and spinal cord". Brain Res. Dev. Brain Res. 108 (1–2): 147–160. doi:10.1016/S0165-3806(98)00046-7. PMID 9693793. 
• Sato KZ; Fujii T; Watanabe Y et al. (1999). "Diversity of mRNA expression for muscarinic acetylcholine receptor subtypes and neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunits in human mononuclear leukocytes and leukemic cell lines". Neurosci. Lett. 266 (1): 17–20. doi:10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00259-1. PMID 10336173. 
• "Stoichiometry of human recombinant neuronal nicotinic receptors containing the b3 subunit expressed in Xenopus oocytes". J. Physiol. 529 (3): 565–77. 2001. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7793.2000.00565.x. PMID 11118490. 
• Lev-Lehman E; Bercovich D; Xu W et al. (2001). "Characterization of the human beta4 nAChR gene and polymorphisms in CHRNA3 and CHRNB4". J. Hum. Genet. 46 (7): 362–366. doi:10.1007/PL00010921. PMID 11450844. 
• "Formation of functional alpha3beta4alpha5 human neuronal nicotinic receptors in Xenopus oocytes: a reporter mutation approach". Br. J. Pharmacol. 134 (4): 789–796. 2001. doi:10.1038/sj.bjp.0704313. PMID 11606319. 

External links

• CHRNB4+protein,+human at the US National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
• Human CHRNB4 genome location and CHRNB4 gene details page in the UCSC Genome Browser.

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