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Homo sapiens Protein: GABRA4
Summary
InnateDB Protein IDBP-16550.5
Last Modified 2014-10-13 [Report errors or provide feedback]
Gene Symbol GABRA4
Protein Name gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) A receptor, alpha 4
Synonyms
Species Homo sapiens
Ensembl Protein ENSP00000264318
InnateDB Gene IDBG-16546 (GABRA4)
Protein Structure
UniProt Annotation
Function GABA, the major inhibitory neurotransmitter in the vertebrate brain, mediates neuronal inhibition by binding to the GABA/benzodiazepine receptor and opening an integral chloride channel.
Subcellular Localization Cell junction, synapse, postsynaptic cell membrane; Multi-pass membrane protein. Cell membrane; Multi-pass membrane protein.
Disease Associations
Tissue Specificity
Comments
Interactions
Number of Interactions This gene and/or its encoded proteins are associated with 3 experimentally validated interaction(s) in this database.
Experimentally validated
Total 3 [view]
Protein-Protein 3 [view]
Protein-DNA 0
Protein-RNA 0
DNA-DNA 0
RNA-RNA 0
DNA-RNA 0
Gene Ontology

Molecular Function
Accession GO Term
GO:0004890 GABA-A receptor activity
GO:0005230 extracellular ligand-gated ion channel activity
GO:0005254 chloride channel activity
GO:0008503 benzodiazepine receptor activity
Biological Process
GO:0006810 transport
GO:0006811 ion transport
GO:0007214 gamma-aminobutyric acid signaling pathway
GO:0007268 synaptic transmission
GO:0007417 central nervous system development
GO:0034220 ion transmembrane transport
GO:0055085 transmembrane transport
GO:1902476 chloride transmembrane transport
GO:2001023 regulation of response to drug
Cellular Component
GO:0005886 plasma membrane
GO:0005887 integral component of plasma membrane
GO:0016020 membrane
GO:0016021 integral component of membrane
GO:0030054 cell junction
GO:0034707 chloride channel complex
GO:0045211 postsynaptic membrane
Protein Structure and Domains
PDB ID
InterPro IPR001390 Gamma-aminobutyric-acid A receptor, alpha subunit
IPR005434 Gamma-aminobutyric-acid A receptor, alpha 4 subunit
IPR005437 Gamma-aminobutyric-acid A receptor, gamma subunit
IPR006028 Gamma-aminobutyric acid A receptor/Glycine receptor alpha
IPR006029 Neurotransmitter-gated ion-channel transmembrane domain
IPR006201 Neurotransmitter-gated ion-channel
IPR006202 Neurotransmitter-gated ion-channel ligand-binding
PFAM PF02932
PF02931
PRINTS PR01079
PR01617
PR01620
PR00253
PR00252
PIRSF
SMART
TIGRFAMs
Post-translational Modifications
Modification
Cross-References
SwissProt P48169
PhosphoSite PhosphoSite-P48169
TrEMBL X5D7F5
UniProt Splice Variant
Entrez Gene 2557
UniGene Hs.248112
RefSeq NP_001191196
HUGO HGNC:4078
OMIM 137141
CCDS CCDS3473
HPRD 08839
IMGT
EMBL AC107383 AK090780 BC035055 CH471069 KJ534840 U20166 U30461
GenPept AAA74743 AAB52519 AAH35055 AHW56480 BAG52228 EAW93029

If you use InnateDB for your research, please cite the following publication:

Breuer et al., InnateDB: systems biology of innate immunity and beyond - recent updates and continuing curation. Nucl. Acids Res. (2013) 41 (D1) 

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