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ReviewFrontiers in pharmacology2014

Complex GABAB receptor complexes: how to generate multiple functionally distinct units from a single receptor.

Chanjuan Xu, Wenhua Zhang, Philippe Rondard, Jean-Philippe Pin, Jianfeng Liu

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Review in Frontiers in pharmacology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

34 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  5. GABAMedComm · 2025
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  8. Action of GABAThe journal of physiological sciences : JPS · 2024
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  11. GABA signalling in human pancreatic islets.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2023
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  16. Mechanisms and Regulation of Neuronal GABACurrent topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2022
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  17. The role of GABA in islet function.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Chanjuan XuCellular Signaling Laboratory, Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of Ministry of Education, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Wuhan, China.
Wenhua ZhangCellular Signaling Laboratory, Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of Ministry of Education, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Wuhan, China.
Philippe RondardInstitut de Génomique Fonctionnelle, CNRS UMR5203, INSERM U661, Universités de Montpellier I & II Montpellier, France.
Jean-Philippe PinInstitut de Génomique Fonctionnelle, CNRS UMR5203, INSERM U661, Universités de Montpellier I & II Montpellier, France.
Jianfeng LiuCellular Signaling Laboratory, Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of Ministry of Education, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Wuhan, China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The main inhibitory neurotransmitter, GABA, acts on both ligand-gated and G protein-coupled receptors, the GABAA/C and GABAB receptors, respectively. The later play important roles in modulating many synapses, both at the pre- and post-synaptic levels, and are then still considered as interesting targets to treat a number of brain diseases, including addiction. For many years, several subtypes of GABAB receptors were expected, but cloning revealed only two genes that work in concert to generate a single type of GABAB receptor composed of two subunits. Here we will show that the signaling complexity of this unit receptor type can be largely increased through various ways, including receptor stoichiometry, subunit isoforms, cell-surface expression and localization, crosstalk with other receptors, or interacting proteins. These recent data revealed how complexity of a receptor unit can be increased, observation that certainly are not unique to the GABAB receptor.

Indexed as

dimersGABAB receptorG-protein coupled receptor interacting proteinslarge oligomerssignal transduction

Identifiers

PMID24575041
PMCPMC3920572

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