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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
1998 Mar 31;957:4019-22. doi: 10.1073/pnas.95.7.4019.
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Cloning and functional expression of alternative spliced variants of the rho1 gamma-aminobutyrate receptor.
Martínez-Torres A, Vazquez AE, Panicker MM, Miledi R.
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The rho1 gamma-aminobutyrate receptor (GABArho1) is expressed predominantly in the retina and forms homomeric GABA-gated Cl- channels that are clearly different from the multisubunit GABAA receptors. In contrast to these, GABArho1 receptors desensitize very little and are not blocked by bicuculline. In addition to GABArho1, two new variants were identified in human retina cDNA libraries. Cloning and sequence analysis showed that both variants contain large deletions in the putative extracellular domain of the receptor. These deletions extend from a common 5' site to different 3' sites. The cDNA with the largest deletion, named GABArho1Delta450, contains a complete ORF identical to that of GABArho1 but missing 450 nt. This cDNA encodes a protein of 323 aa, identical to the GABArho1, but has a deletion of 150 aa in the amino-terminal extracellular domain. GABArho1Delta450 mRNA injected into Xenopus oocytes did not produce functional GABA receptors. The second GABArho1 variant (GABArho1Delta51) contains a 51-nt deletion. In Xenopus oocytes, GABArho1Delta51 led to the expression of GABA receptors that had the essential GABArho1 characteristics of low desensitization and bicuculline resistance. Therefore, alternative splicing increases the coding potential of this gene family expressed in the human retina, but the functional diversity created by the alternative spliced forms is still not understood.
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