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GPHN
Introduction
Gephyrin, also known as GPHN, is a human gene.[1]
This gene encodes a neuronal assembly protein that anchors inhibitory neurotransmitter receptors to the postsynaptic cytoskeleton via high affinity binding to a receptor subunit domain and tubulin dimers. In nonneuronal tissues, the encoded protein is also required for molybdenum cofactor biosynthesis. Mutations in this gene may be associated with the neurological condition hyperplexia and also lead to molybdenum cofactor deficiency. Numerous alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been described; however, the full-length nature of all transcript variants is not currently known.[1]
Further reading
Further reading
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- Reiss J, Johnson JL (2003). “Mutations in the molybdenum cofactor biosynthetic genes MOCS1, MOCS2, and GEPH”. Hum. Mutat. 21 (6): 569–76. doi:10.1002/humu.10223. PMID 12754701.
- Prior P, Schmitt B, Grenningloh G; et al. (1992). “Primary structure and alternative splice variants of gephyrin, a putative glycine receptor-tubulin linker protein”. Neuron. 8 (6): 1161–70. PMID 1319186.
- Kirsch J, Langosch D, Prior P; et al. (1991). “The 93-kDa glycine receptor-associated protein binds to tubulin”. J. Biol. Chem. 266 (33): 22242–5. PMID 1657993.
- Meyer G, Kirsch J, Betz H, Langosch D (1995). “Identification of a gephyrin binding motif on the glycine receptor beta subunit”. Neuron. 15 (3): 563–72. PMID 7546736.
- Mammoto A, Sasaki T, Asakura T; et al. (1998). “Interactions of drebrin and gephyrin with profilin”. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 243 (1): 86–9. doi:10.1006/bbrc.1997.8068. PMID 9473484.
- Kneussel M, Hermann A, Kirsch J, Betz H (1999). “Hydrophobic interactions mediate binding of the glycine receptor beta-subunit to gephyrin”. J. Neurochem. 72 (3): 1323–6. PMID 10037506.
- Sabatini DM, Barrow RK, Blackshaw S; et al. (1999). “Interaction of RAFT1 with gephyrin required for rapamycin-sensitive signaling”. Science. 284 (5417): 1161–4. PMID 10325225.
- Kins S, Betz H, Kirsch J (2000). “Collybistin, a newly identified brain-specific GEF, induces submembrane clustering of gephyrin”. Nat. Neurosci. 3 (1): 22–9. doi:10.1038/71096. PMID 10607391.
- Nagase T, Kikuno R, Ishikawa KI; et al. (2000). “Prediction of the coding sequences of unidentified human genes. XVI. The complete sequences of 150 new cDNA clones from brain which code for large proteins in vitro”. DNA Res. 7 (1): 65–73. PMID 10718198.
- Butler MH, Hayashi A, Ohkoshi N; et al. (2000). “Autoimmunity to gephyrin in Stiff-Man syndrome”. Neuron. 26 (2): 307–12. PMID 10839351.
- Kneussel M, Haverkamp S, Fuhrmann JC; et al. (2000). “The gamma-aminobutyric acid type A receptor (GABAAR)-associated protein GABARAP interacts with gephyrin but is not involved in receptor anchoring at the synapse”. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 97 (15): 8594–9. PMID 10900017.
- Reiss J, Gross-Hardt S, Christensen E; et al. (2001). “A mutation in the gene for the neurotransmitter receptor-clustering protein gephyrin causes a novel form of molybdenum cofactor deficiency”. Am. J. Hum. Genet. 68 (1): 208–13. PMID 11095995.
- David-Watine B (2001). “The human gephyrin (GPHN) gene: structure, chromosome localization and expression in non-neuronal cells”. Gene. 271 (2): 239–45. PMID 11418245.
- Schwarz G, Schrader N, Mendel RR; et al. (2001). “Crystal structures of human gephyrin and plant Cnx1 G domains: comparative analysis and functional implications”. J. Mol. Biol. 312 (2): 405–18. doi:10.1006/jmbi.2001.4952. PMID 11554796.
- Grosskreutz Y, Hermann A, Kins S; et al. (2002). “Identification of a gephyrin-binding motif in the GDP/GTP exchange factor collybistin”. Biol. Chem. 382 (10): 1455–62. PMID 11727829.
- Fuhrmann JC, Kins S, Rostaing P; et al. (2002). “Gephyrin interacts with Dynein light chains 1 and 2, components of motor protein complexes”. J. Neurosci. 22 (13): 5393–402. doi:20026552 Check
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- Waldvogel HJ, Baer K, Snell RG; et al. (2003). “Distribution of gephyrin in the human brain: an immunohistochemical analysis”. Neuroscience. 116 (1): 145–56. PMID 12535948.