Biology:GLRA2

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

Generic protein structure example

Glycine receptor subunit alpha-2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the GLRA2 gene.

See also

• Glycine receptor

Further reading

• "Alpha subunit variants of the human glycine receptor: primary structures, functional expression and chromosomal localization of the corresponding genes". EMBO J. 9 (3): 771–6. 1990. doi:10.1002/j.1460-2075.1990.tb08172.x. PMID 2155780. 
• "Structure of the human alpha 2 subunit gene of the glycine receptor--use of vectorette and Alu-exon PCR". Genome Res. 6 (12): 1200–6. 1997. doi:10.1101/gr.6.12.1200. PMID 8973915. 
• "Analysis of the genomic structure of the human glycine receptor alpha2 subunit gene and exclusion of this gene as a candidate for Rett syndrome". Am. J. Med. Genet. 78 (2): 176–8. 1998. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1096-8628(19980630)78:2<176::AID-AJMG16>3.0.CO;2-K. PMID 9674912. 
• "Systematic screening for mutations in the glycine receptor alpha2 subunit gene (GLRA2) in patients with schizophrenia and other psychiatric diseases". Psychiatr. Genet. 11 (1): 45–8. 2001. doi:10.1097/00041444-200103000-00009. PMID 11409700. 
• "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): 16899–903. 2003. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMID 12477932. Bibcode: 2002PNAS...9916899M. 
• "Multiple sites of ethanol action in alpha1 and alpha2 glycine receptors suggested by sensitivity to pressure antagonism". J. Neurochem. 89 (5): 1175–85. 2004. doi:10.1111/j.1471-4159.2004.02390.x. PMID 15147510. 
• "Differential agonist sensitivity of glycine receptor alpha2 subunit splice variants". Br. J. Pharmacol. 143 (1): 19–26. 2005. doi:10.1038/sj.bjp.0705875. PMID 15302677. 
• "The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC)". Genome Res. 14 (10B): 2121–7. 2004. doi:10.1101/gr.2596504. PMID 15489334. 
• "Molecular basis for zinc potentiation at strychnine-sensitive glycine receptors". J. Biol. Chem. 280 (45): 37877–84. 2006. doi:10.1074/jbc.M508303200. PMID 16144831. 

External links

• GLRA2+protein,+human at the US National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

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