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Disease
[ACHA4_HUMAN] Autosomal dominant nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy. The disease is caused by mutations affecting the gene represented in this entry. [ACHB2_HUMAN] Defects in CHRNB2 are the cause of nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy type 3 (ENFL3) [MIM:605375]. ENFL3 is an autosomal dominant epilepsy characterized by nocturnal seizures with hyperkinetic automatisms and poorly organized stereotyped movements.[1] [2]
Function
[ACHA4_HUMAN] After binding acetylcholine, the AChR responds by an extensive change in conformation that affects all subunits and leads to opening of an ion-conducting channel across the plasma membrane permeable to sodium ions.[3] [ACHB2_HUMAN] After binding acetylcholine, the AChR responds by an extensive change in conformation that affects all subunits and leads to opening of an ion-conducting channel across the plasma membrane permeable to sodiun ions.[4]
Publication Abstract from PubMed
Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors are ligand-gated ion channels that mediate fast chemical neurotransmission at the neuromuscular junction and have diverse signalling roles in the central nervous system. The nicotinic receptor has been a model system for cell-surface receptors, and specifically for ligand-gated ion channels, for well over a century. In addition to the receptors' prominent roles in the development of the fields of pharmacology and neurobiology, nicotinic receptors are important therapeutic targets for neuromuscular disease, addiction, epilepsy and for neuromuscular blocking agents used during surgery. The overall architecture of the receptor was described in landmark studies of the nicotinic receptor isolated from the electric organ of Torpedo marmorata. Structures of a soluble ligand-binding domain have provided atomic-scale insights into receptor-ligand interactions, while high-resolution structures of other members of the pentameric receptor superfamily provide touchstones for an emerging allosteric gating mechanism. All available high-resolution structures are of homopentameric receptors. However, the vast majority of pentameric receptors (called Cys-loop receptors in eukaryotes) present physiologically are heteromeric. Here we present the X-ray crystallographic structure of the human alpha4beta2 nicotinic receptor, the most abundant nicotinic subtype in the brain. This structure provides insights into the architectural principles governing ligand recognition, heteromer assembly, ion permeation and desensitization in this prototypical receptor class.
X-ray structure of the human alpha4beta2 nicotinic receptor.,Morales-Perez CL, Noviello CM, Hibbs RE Nature. 2016 Oct 3. doi: 10.1038/nature19785. PMID:27698419[5]
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References
- ↑ De Fusco M, Becchetti A, Patrignani A, Annesi G, Gambardella A, Quattrone A, Ballabio A, Wanke E, Casari G. The nicotinic receptor beta 2 subunit is mutant in nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy. Nat Genet. 2000 Nov;26(3):275-6. PMID:11062464 doi:10.1038/81566
- ↑ Phillips HA, Favre I, Kirkpatrick M, Zuberi SM, Goudie D, Heron SE, Scheffer IE, Sutherland GR, Berkovic SF, Bertrand D, Mulley JC. CHRNB2 is the second acetylcholine receptor subunit associated with autosomal dominant nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy. Am J Hum Genet. 2001 Jan;68(1):225-31. Epub 2000 Dec 5. PMID:11104662 doi:10.1086/316946
- ↑ Bondarenko V, Mowrey D, Tillman T, Cui T, Liu LT, Xu Y, Tang P. NMR structures of the transmembrane domains of the alpha4beta2 nAChR. Biochim Biophys Acta. 2012 Feb 14;1818(5):1261-1268. PMID:22361591 doi:10.1016/j.bbamem.2012.02.008
- ↑ Bondarenko V, Mowrey D, Tillman T, Cui T, Liu LT, Xu Y, Tang P. NMR structures of the transmembrane domains of the alpha4beta2 nAChR. Biochim Biophys Acta. 2012 Feb 14;1818(5):1261-1268. PMID:22361591 doi:10.1016/j.bbamem.2012.02.008
- ↑ Morales-Perez CL, Noviello CM, Hibbs RE. X-ray structure of the human alpha4beta2 nicotinic receptor. Nature. 2016 Oct 3. doi: 10.1038/nature19785. PMID:27698419 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature19785
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