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Article Dans Une Revue Journal of Neurochemistry Année : 1997

An mRNA Encoding a Putative GABA-Gated Chloride Channel Is Expressed in the Human Cardiac Conduction System

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GABA-gated chloride channels are the main inhibitory neurotransmitter receptors in the CNS. Conserved domains among members of previously described GABAA receptor subunits were used to design degenerate sense and antisense oligonucleotides. A PCR product from this amplification was used to isolate a full-length cDNA. The predicted protein has many of the features shared by other members ofthe ligand-gated ion channel family. This channel subunit has significant amino acid identity (25-40%) with members of GABAA and GABAC receptor subunits and thus may represent a new subfam-ily of the GABA receptor channel. Although we cannot rule out that this clone encodes a receptor for an unidentified ligand, it was termed GABA x. This gene is mainly expressed in placenta and in heart; however, placenta appears to express only an unspliced mRNA. In situ hybrid-ization reveals that the GABA~subunit mANA is present in the electrical conduction system of the human heart. Our results suggest that novel GABA receptors expressed outside of the CNS may regulate cardiac function.

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Neurobiologie

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hal-02862766 , version 1 (09-06-2020)

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Lionel Bascies, Maurice Garret, Lionel Bascles, Eric Boué-Grabot, Pierre Sartor, et al.. An mRNA Encoding a Putative GABA-Gated Chloride Channel Is Expressed in the Human Cardiac Conduction System. Journal of Neurochemistry, 1997, 68 (4), pp.1382-1389. ⟨10.1046/j.1471-4159.1997.68041382.x⟩. ⟨hal-02862766⟩

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