CHRNA5

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Neuronal acetylcholine receptor subunit alpha-5, also known as nAChRα5, is a protein that in humans is encoded by the CHRNA5 gene. The protein encoded by this gene is a subunit of certain nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAchR).

Function

Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs), such as CHRNA5, are members of a superfamily of ligand-gated ion channels that mediate fast signal transmission at synapses. The nAChRs are thought to be (hetero)pentamers composed of homologous subunits.

Interactive pathway map

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See also

• Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor

Further reading

• Hogg RC, Raggenbass M, Bertrand D (2003). "Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors: from structure to brain function". Rev. Physiol. Biochem. Pharmacol. Reviews of Physiology, Biochemistry and Pharmacology. 147: 1–46. doi:10.1007/s10254-003-0005-1. ISBN 978-3-540-01365-5. PMID 12783266.
• Anand R, Lindstrom J (1992). "Chromosomal localization of seven neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunit genes in humans". Genomics. 13 (4): 962–7. doi:10.1016/0888-7543(92)90008-G. PMID 1505988.
• Chini B, Clementi F, Hukovic N, Sher E (1992). "Neuronal-type alpha-bungarotoxin receptors and the alpha 5-nicotinic receptor subunit gene are expressed in neuronal and nonneuronal human cell lines". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 89 (5): 1572–6. doi:10.1073/pnas.89.5.1572. PMC 48494. PMID 1542648.
• Raimondi E, Rubboli F, Moralli D, et al. (1992). "Chromosomal localization and physical linkage of the genes encoding the human alpha 3, alpha 5, and beta 4 neuronal nicotinic receptor subunits". Genomics. 12 (4): 849–50. doi:10.1016/0888-7543(92)90324-L. PMID 1572664.
• Elliott KJ, Ellis SB, Berckhan KJ, et al. (1997). "Comparative structure of human neuronal alpha 2-alpha 7 and beta 2-beta 4 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunits and functional expression of the alpha 2, alpha 3, alpha 4, alpha 7, beta 2, and beta 4 subunits". J. Mol. Neurosci. 7 (3): 217–28. doi:10.1007/BF02736842. PMID 8906617.
• Groot Kormelink PJ, Luyten WH (1997). "Cloning and sequence of full-length cDNAs encoding the human neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) subunits beta3 and beta4 and expression of seven nAChR subunits in the human neuroblastoma cell line SH-SY5Y and/or IMR-32". FEBS Lett. 400 (3): 309–14. doi:10.1016/S0014-5793(96)01383-X. PMID 9009220.
• Navaneetham D, Penn A, Howard J, Conti-Fine BM (1997). "Expression of the alpha 7 subunit of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor in normal and myasthenic human thymuses". Cell. Mol. Biol. (Noisy-le-grand). 43 (3): 433–42. PMID 9193799.
• Gerzanich V, Wang F, Kuryatov A, Lindstrom J (1998). "alpha 5 Subunit alters desensitization, pharmacology, Ca++ permeability and Ca++ modulation of human neuronal alpha 3 nicotinic receptors". J. Pharmacol. Exp. Ther. 286 (1): 311–20. PMID 9655874.
• Lentz TL (2000). "Nicotine binding to native and substituted peptides comprising residues 188-207 of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor alpha1, alpha2, alpha3, alpha4, alpha5, and alpha7 subunits". Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 268 (2): 480–4. doi:10.1006/bbrc.2000.2155. PMID 10679230.
• Groot-Kormelink PJ, Boorman JP, Sivilotti LG (2001). "Formation of functional α3β4α5 human neuronal nicotinic receptors in Xenopus oocytes: a reporter mutation approach". Br. J. Pharmacol. 134 (4): 789–96. doi:10.1038/sj.bjp.0704313. PMC 1573006. PMID 11606319.
• Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, et al. (2003). "Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899–903. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMC 139241. PMID 12477932.
• Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA, et al. (2004). "The Status, Quality, and Expansion of the NIH Full-Length cDNA Project: The Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC)". Genome Res. 14 (10B): 2121–7. doi:10.1101/gr.2596504. PMC 528928. PMID 15489334.
• Soldà G, Boi S, Duga S, et al. (2005). "In vivo RNA-RNA duplexes from human alpha3 and alpha5 nicotinic receptor subunit mRNAs". Gene. 345 (2): 155–64. doi:10.1016/j.gene.2004.12.005. PMID 15716100.

External links

• CHRNA5+protein,+human at the US National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
• Human CHRNA5 genome location and CHRNA5 gene details page in the UCSC Genome Browser.

This article incorporates text from the United States National Library of Medicine, which is in the public domain.