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Bos taurus Protein: GABRA4
Summary
InnateDB Protein IDBP-694399.2
Last Modified 2014-10-13 [Report errors or provide feedback]
Gene Symbol GABRA4
Protein Name Gamma-aminobutyric acid receptor subunit alpha-4
Synonyms
Species Bos taurus
Ensembl Protein ENSBTAP00000022141
InnateDB Gene IDBG-641988 (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 0 experimentally validated interaction(s) in this database.
They are also associated with 3 interaction(s) predicted by orthology.
Predicted by orthology
Total 3 [view]
Gene Ontology

Molecular Function
Accession GO Term
GO:0004890 GABA-A receptor activity
GO:0005216 ion channel activity
GO:0005230 extracellular ligand-gated ion channel activity
GO:0005254 chloride channel activity
Biological Process
GO:0006810 transport
GO:0006811 ion transport
GO:0006821 chloride transport
GO:0007214 gamma-aminobutyric acid signaling pathway
GO:0007417 central nervous system development
GO:0034220 ion transmembrane transport
GO:1902476 chloride transmembrane transport
GO:2001023 regulation of response to drug
Cellular Component
GO:0005886 plasma membrane
GO:0016020 membrane
GO:0016021 integral component of membrane
GO:0030054 cell junction
GO:0034707 chloride channel complex
GO:0045202 synapse
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 P20237
PhosphoSite PhosphoSite-
TrEMBL
UniProt Splice Variant
Entrez Gene 282238
UniGene Bt.171
RefSeq NP_776968
HUGO
OMIM
CCDS
HPRD
IMGT
EMBL BC123424 X61456
GenPept AAI23425 CAA43696

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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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