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Homo sapiens Protein: GABRA6
Summary
InnateDB Protein IDBP-56311.5
Last Modified 2014-10-13 [Report errors or provide feedback]
Gene Symbol GABRA6
Protein Name gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) A receptor, alpha 6
Synonyms
Species Homo sapiens
Ensembl Protein ENSP00000274545
InnateDB Gene IDBG-56309 (GABRA6)
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 1 experimentally validated interaction(s) in this database.
Experimentally validated
Total 1 [view]
Protein-Protein 1 [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:0007165 signal transduction
GO:0007214 gamma-aminobutyric acid signaling pathway
GO:0007268 synaptic transmission
GO:0034220 ion transmembrane transport
GO:0055085 transmembrane transport
GO:1902476 chloride transmembrane transport
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
IPR005436 Gamma-aminobutyric-acid A receptor, alpha 6 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
PR01619
PR01620
PR00253
PR00252
PIRSF
SMART
TIGRFAMs
Post-translational Modifications
Modification
Cross-References
SwissProt Q16445
PhosphoSite PhosphoSite-Q16445
TrEMBL Q71UU0
UniProt Splice Variant
Entrez Gene 2559
UniGene Hs.90791
RefSeq NP_000802
HUGO HGNC:4080
OMIM 137143
CCDS CCDS4356
HPRD 08841
IMGT
EMBL AF053072 AK289461 BC096241 BC096242 BC099640 BC099641 CH471062 S81944
GenPept AAB36480 AAD19830 AAH96241 AAH96242 AAH99640 AAH99641 BAF82150 EAW61542

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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