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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6622
pubmed:dateCreated
1997-4-7
pubmed:databankReference
pubmed:abstractText
Spatial localization and clustering of membrane proteins is critical to neuronal development and synaptic plasticity. Recent studies have identified a family of proteins, the PDZ proteins, that contain modular PDZ domains and interact with synaptic ionotropic glutamate receptors and ion channels. PDZ proteins are thought to have a role in defining the cellular distribution of the proteins that interact with them. Here we report a novel dendritic protein, Homer, that contains a single, PDZ-like domain and binds specifically to the carboxy terminus of phosphoinositide-linked metabotropic glutamate receptors. Homer is highly divergent from known PDZ proteins and seems to represent a novel family. The Homer gene is also distinct from members of the PDZ family in that its expression is regulated as an immediate early gene and is dynamically responsive to physiological synaptic activity, particularly during cortical development. This dynamic transcriptional control suggests that Homer mediates a novel cellular mechanism that regulates metabotropic glutamate signalling.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0028-0836
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
20
pubmed:volume
386
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
284-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:9069287-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:9069287-Binding Sites, pubmed-meshheading:9069287-Brain, pubmed-meshheading:9069287-Carrier Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:9069287-Cell Line, pubmed-meshheading:9069287-Cloning, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:9069287-Gene Expression Regulation, pubmed-meshheading:9069287-Hippocampus, pubmed-meshheading:9069287-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:9069287-Immunoenzyme Techniques, pubmed-meshheading:9069287-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:9069287-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:9069287-Nerve Tissue Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:9069287-Neurons, pubmed-meshheading:9069287-Neuropeptides, pubmed-meshheading:9069287-RNA, Messenger, pubmed-meshheading:9069287-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:9069287-Receptors, Metabotropic Glutamate, pubmed-meshheading:9069287-Sequence Deletion, pubmed-meshheading:9069287-Sequence Homology, Amino Acid, pubmed-meshheading:9069287-Signal Transduction, pubmed-meshheading:9069287-Synapses
pubmed:year
1997
pubmed:articleTitle
Homer: a protein that selectively binds metabotropic glutamate receptors.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't