Reviewed, UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot Q16445 (GBRA6_HUMAN)

Names and origin

Protein names

Recommended name:
    Gamma-aminobutyric acid receptor subunit alpha-6
Alternative name(s):
    GABA(A) receptor subunit alpha-6

Gene names

Name:

GABRA6

Organism

Homo sapiens (Human) [Complete proteome]

Taxonomic identifier

9606 [NCBI]

Taxonomic lineage

Eukaryota › Metazoa › Chordata › Craniata › Vertebrata › Euteleostomi › Mammalia › Eutheria › Euarchontoglires › Primates › Haplorrhini › Catarrhini › Hominidae › Homo

Protein attributes

Sequence length	453 AA.
Sequence status	Complete.
Sequence processing	The displayed sequence is further processed into a mature form.
Protein existence	Evidence at transcript level.

General annotation (Comments)

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.
Subunit structure	Binds UBQLN1 By similarity. Generally pentameric. There are five types of GABA(A) receptor chains: alpha, beta, gamma, delta, and rho.
Subcellular location	Cell junction › synapse › postsynaptic cell membrane; Multi-pass membrane protein. Cell membrane; Multi-pass membrane protein.
Sequence similarities	Belongs to the ligand-gated ionic channel (TC 1.A.9) family. [View classification]

Ontologies

Keywords
Biological process	Ion transport Transport
Cellular component	Cell junction Cell membrane Membrane Postsynaptic cell membrane Synapse
Coding sequence diversity	Polymorphism
Domain	Signal Transmembrane
Ligand	Chloride
Molecular function	Chloride channel Ionic channel
PTM	Disulfide bond Glycoprotein
Technical term	Complete proteome
Gene Ontology (GO)
Biological process	chloride transport Inferred from electronic annotation. Source: InterPro gamma-aminobutyric acid signaling pathway Inferred from electronic annotation. Source: InterPro
Cellular component	cell junction Inferred from electronic annotation. Source: UniProtKB-KW chloride channel complex Inferred from electronic annotation. Source: UniProtKB-KW integral to plasma membrane Ref.1 Traceable author statement. Source: ProtInc postsynaptic membrane Inferred from electronic annotation. Source: UniProtKB-KW
Molecular function	GABA-A receptor activity Inferred from electronic annotation. Source: InterPro benzodiazepine receptor activity Ref.1 Traceable author statement. Source: ProtInc chloride channel activity Inferred from electronic annotation. Source: UniProtKB-KW chloride ion binding Inferred from electronic annotation. Source: UniProtKB-KW
Complete GO annotation...

Sequence annotation (Features)

	Feature key	Position(s)	Length	Description	Graphical view	Feature identifier
Molecule processing
	Signal peptide	1 – 19	19	Potential
	Chain	20 – 453	434	Gamma-aminobutyric acid receptor subunit alpha-6		PRO_0000000447
Regions
	Topological domain	20 – 242	223	Extracellular Probable
	Transmembrane	243 – 264	22	Probable
	Transmembrane	269 – 290	22	Probable
	Transmembrane	301 – 324	24	Probable
	Topological domain	325 – 419	95	Cytoplasmic Probable
	Transmembrane	420 – 441	22	Probable
Amino acid modifications
	Glycosylation	31	1	N-linked (GlcNAc...) Potential
	Glycosylation	128	1	N-linked (GlcNAc...) Potential
	Glycosylation	141	1	N-linked (GlcNAc...) Potential
	Disulfide bond	156 ↔ 170		By similarity
Natural variations
	Natural variant	180	1	P → H in a colorectal cancer sample; somatic mutation. Ref.5		VAR_036033
	Natural variant	187	1	T → M: dbSNP rs3811993.		VAR_036782
	Natural variant	404	1	P → S: dbSNP rs34907804.		VAR_036783
Experimental info
	Sequence conflict	408	1	S → P in AAB36480. Ref.1

Sequences

	Sequence		Length	Mass (Da)
	Q16445-1 [UniParc]. Last modified February 20, 2007. Version 2. Checksum: 5C9F85845BC8E3B0	FASTA	453	51,024
	10 20 30 40 50 60 MASSLPWLCI ILWLENALGK LEVEGNFYSE NVSRILDNLL EGYDNRLRPG FGGAVTEVKT 70 80 90 100 110 120 DIYVTSFGPV SDVEMEYTMD VFFRQTWTDE RLKFGGPTEI LSLNNLMVSK IWTPDTFFRN 130 140 150 160 170 180 GKKSIAHNMT TPNKLFRIMQ NGTILYTMRL TINADCPMRL VNFPMDGHAC PLKFGSYAYP 190 200 210 220 230 240 KSEIIYTWKK GPLYSVEVPE ESSSLLQYDL IGQTVSSETI KSNTGEYVIM TVYFHLQRKM 250 260 270 280 290 300 GYFMIQIYTP CIMTVILSQV SFWINKESVP ARTVFGITTV LTMTTLSISA RHSLPKVSYA 310 320 330 340 350 360 TAMDWFIAVC FAFVFSALIE FAAVNYFTNL QTQKAKRKAQ FAAPPTVTIS KATEPLEAEI 370 380 390 400 410 420 VLHPDSKYHL KKRITSLSLP IVSSSEANKV LTRAPILQST PVTPPPLSPA FGGTSKIDQY 430 440 450 SRILFPVAFA GFNLVYWVVY LSKDTMEVSS SVE

References

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[1]	"Cloning of cDNAs encoding the human gamma-aminobutyric acid type A receptor alpha 6 subunit and characterization of the pharmacology of alpha 6-containing receptors." Hadingham K.L., Garrett E.M., Wafford K.A., Bain C., Heavens R.P., Sirinathsinghji D.J., Whiting P.J. Mol. Pharmacol. 49:253-259(1996) [PubMed: 8632757] [Abstract] Cited for: NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE [MRNA]. Tissue: Cerebellum.
[2]	"Complete sequencing and characterization of 21,243 full-length human cDNAs." Ota T., Suzuki Y., Nishikawa T., Otsuki T., Sugiyama T., Irie R., Wakamatsu A., Hayashi K., Sato H., Nagai K., Kimura K., Makita H., Sekine M., Obayashi M., Nishi T., Shibahara T., Tanaka T., Ishii S. , Yamamoto J., Saito K., Kawai Y., Isono Y., Nakamura Y., Nagahari K., Murakami K., Yasuda T., Iwayanagi T., Wagatsuma M., Shiratori A., Sudo H., Hosoiri T., Kaku Y., Kodaira H., Kondo H., Sugawara M., Takahashi M., Kanda K., Yokoi T., Furuya T., Kikkawa E., Omura Y., Abe K., Kamihara K., Katsuta N., Sato K., Tanikawa M., Yamazaki M., Ninomiya K., Ishibashi T., Yamashita H., Murakawa K., Fujimori K., Tanai H., Kimata M., Watanabe M., Hiraoka S., Chiba Y., Ishida S., Ono Y., Takiguchi S., Watanabe S., Yosida M., Hotuta T., Kusano J., Kanehori K., Takahashi-Fujii A., Hara H., Tanase T.-O., Nomura Y., Togiya S., Komai F., Hara R., Takeuchi K., Arita M., Imose N., Musashino K., Yuuki H., Oshima A., Sasaki N., Aotsuka S., Yoshikawa Y., Matsunawa H., Ichihara T., Shiohata N., Sano S., Moriya S., Momiyama H., Satoh N., Takami S., Terashima Y., Suzuki O., Nakagawa S., Senoh A., Mizoguchi H., Goto Y., Shimizu F., Wakebe H., Hishigaki H., Watanabe T., Sugiyama A., Takemoto M., Kawakami B., Yamazaki M., Watanabe K., Kumagai A., Itakura S., Fukuzumi Y., Fujimori Y., Komiyama M., Tashiro H., Tanigami A., Fujiwara T., Ono T., Yamada K., Fujii Y., Ozaki K., Hirao M., Ohmori Y., Kawabata A., Hikiji T., Kobatake N., Inagaki H., Ikema Y., Okamoto S., Okitani R., Kawakami T., Noguchi S., Itoh T., Shigeta K., Senba T., Matsumura K., Nakajima Y., Mizuno T., Morinaga M., Sasaki M., Togashi T., Oyama M., Hata H., Watanabe M., Komatsu T., Mizushima-Sugano J., Satoh T., Shirai Y., Takahashi Y., Nakagawa K., Okumura K., Nagase T., Nomura N., Kikuchi H., Masuho Y., Yamashita R., Nakai K., Yada T., Nakamura Y., Ohara O., Isogai T., Sugano S. Nat. Genet. 36:40-45(2004) [PubMed: 14702039] [Abstract] Cited for: NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE [LARGE SCALE MRNA]. Tissue: Cerebellum.
[3]	Mural R.J., Istrail S., Sutton G.G., Florea L., Halpern A.L., Mobarry C.M., Lippert R., Walenz B., Shatkay H., Dew I., Miller J.R., Flanigan M.J., Edwards N.J., Bolanos R., Fasulo D., Halldorsson B.V., Hannenhalli S., Turner R. , Yooseph S., Lu F., Nusskern D.R., Shue B.C., Zheng X.H., Zhong F., Delcher A.L., Huson D.H., Kravitz S.A., Mouchard L., Reinert K., Remington K.A., Clark A.G., Waterman M.S., Eichler E.E., Adams M.D., Hunkapiller M.W., Myers E.W., Venter J.C. Submitted (SEP-2005) to the EMBL/GenBank/DDBJ databases Cited for: NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE [LARGE SCALE GENOMIC DNA].
[4]	"The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC)." The MGC Project Team Genome Res. 14:2121-2127(2004) [PubMed: 15489334] [Abstract] Cited for: NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE [LARGE SCALE MRNA].
[5]	"The consensus coding sequences of human breast and colorectal cancers." Sjoeblom T., Jones S., Wood L.D., Parsons D.W., Lin J., Barber T.D., Mandelker D., Leary R.J., Ptak J., Silliman N., Szabo S., Buckhaults P., Farrell C., Meeh P., Markowitz S.D., Willis J., Dawson D., Willson J.K.V. , Gazdar A.F., Hartigan J., Wu L., Liu C., Parmigiani G., Park B.H., Bachman K.E., Papadopoulos N., Vogelstein B., Kinzler K.W., Velculescu V.E. Science 314:268-274(2006) [PubMed: 16959974] [Abstract] Cited for: VARIANT [LARGE SCALE ANALYSIS] HIS-180.
+	Additional computationally mapped references.

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Cross-references

Sequence databases
EMBL GenBank DDBJ	S81944 mRNA. Translation: AAB36480.1. AK289461 mRNA. Translation: BAF82150.1. CH471062 Genomic DNA. Translation: EAW61542.1. BC096241 mRNA. Translation: AAH96241.1. BC096242 mRNA. Translation: AAH96242.1. BC099640 mRNA. Translation: AAH99640.1. BC099641 mRNA. Translation: AAH99641.1.
IPI	IPI00002215.
RefSeq	NP_000802.2.
UniGene	Hs.90791
3D structure databases
SMR	Q16445. Positions 31-325, 33-440.
ModBase	Search...
Protein-protein interaction databases
STRING	Q16445.
PTM databases
PhosphoSite	Q16445.
Proteomic databases
PRIDE	Q16445.
Genome annotation databases
Ensembl	ENST00000274545; ENSP00000274545; ENSG00000145863; Homo sapiens. [Genome view]
GeneID	2559.
KEGG	hsa:2559.
NMPDR	fig|9606.3.peg.26114.
UCSC	uc003lyu.2. human.
Organism-specific databases
CTD	2559.
GeneCards	GC05P161045.
H-InvDB	HIX0005382.
HGNC	HGNC:4080. GABRA6.
MIM	137143. gene.
PharmGKB	PA28494.
GenAtlas	Search...
Phylogenomic databases
eggNOG	prNOG18188.
HOGENOM	HBG506497.
HOVERGEN	Q16445.
InParanoid	Q16445.
OMA	NTINGGR.
OrthoDB	EOG97H88T.
PhylomeDB	Q16445.
Gene expression databases
ArrayExpress	Q16445.
Bgee	Q16445.
CleanEx	HS_GABRA6.
Genevestigator	Q16445.
GermOnline	ENSG00000145863. Homo sapiens.
Family and domain databases
InterPro	IPR006028. GABAA_rcpt. IPR001390. GABAAa_rcpt. IPR005436. GABBAa6_rcpt. IPR006202. Neur_chan_lig_bd. IPR006201. Neur_channel. IPR006029. Neurotrans-gated_channel_TM. IPR018000. Neurotransmitter_ion_chnl_CS. [Graphical view]
Gene3D	G3DSA:2.70.170.10. Neur_chan_lig_bd. 1 hit.
PANTHER	PTHR18945. Neur_channel. 1 hit.
Pfam	PF02931. Neur_chan_LBD. 1 hit. PF02932. Neur_chan_memb. 1 hit. [Graphical view]
PRINTS	PR01079. GABAARALPHA. PR01619. GABAARALPHA6. PR00253. GABAARECEPTR. PR00252. NRIONCHANNEL.
TIGRFAMs	TIGR00860. LIC. 1 hit.
PROSITE	PS00236. NEUROTR_ION_CHANNEL. 1 hit. [Graphical view]
ProtoNet	Search...
Other Resources
DrugBank	DB00404. Alprazolam. DB00189. Ethchlorvynol. DB01544. Flunitrazepam. DB00690. Flurazepam. DB00186. Lorazepam. DB00371. Meprobamate. DB00683. Midazolam.
NextBio	10107.
SOURCE	Search...

Entry information

Entry name

GBRA6_HUMAN

Accession

Primary (citable) accession number: Q16445
Secondary accession number(s): A8K096, Q4VAV2

Entry history

Integrated into UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot:	November 1, 1997
Last sequence update:	February 20, 2007
Last modified:	February 9, 2010
This is version 91 of the entry and version 2 of the sequence. [Complete history]

Entry status

Reviewed (UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot)

Annotation project

HPI (Human Proteome Initiative)

Disclaimer

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