Nature Communications (Jul 2017)

AMPA-receptor specific biogenesis complexes control synaptic transmission and intellectual ability

  • Aline Brechet,
  • Rebecca Buchert,
  • Jochen Schwenk,
  • Sami Boudkkazi,
  • Gerd Zolles,
  • Karine Siquier-Pernet,
  • Irene Schaber,
  • Wolfgang Bildl,
  • Abdelkrim Saadi,
  • Christine Bole-Feysot,
  • Patrick Nitschke,
  • Andre Reis,
  • Heinrich Sticht,
  • Nouriya Al-Sanna’a,
  • Arndt Rolfs,
  • Akos Kulik,
  • Uwe Schulte,
  • Laurence Colleaux,
  • Rami Abou Jamra,
  • Bernd Fakler

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15910
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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The biogenesis of AMPA-type glutamate receptor (AMPAR) complexes is only partially understood. Here the authors identify transient assemblies of GluA1-4 proteins and proteins FRRS1l/CPT1c that drive formation of mature AMPAR complexes in the ER. Mutations in FRRS1l are associated with intellectual disability and epilepsy in three families.