title: Identification of domains of a cloned rat brain GABA transporter which are not required for its functional expression.
abstract: The sodium and chloride coupled gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) transporter purified from rat brain, belongs to a superfamily of neurotransmitter transporters. They are involved in the termination of synaptic transmission and are predicted to have 12 membrane spanning alpha-helices with both amino- and carboxyl-termini oriented toward the cytoplasm. In order to define the domains not required for functional expression, we have constructed and expressed a series of deletion mutants in GAT-1, the cDNA clone encoding for the transporter. Transporters truncated at either end until just a few amino-acids distance from the beginning of helix 1 and the end of helix 12, retain their ability to catalyze sodium and chloride-dependent GABA transport.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Hadassah Medical School, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bendahan
authors.forename: B I
authors.initials: BI
authors.lastname: Kanner
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D001921:Brain / Q000378:metabolism*; D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004247:DNA; D050485:GABA Plasma Membrane Transport Proteins; D006367:HeLa Cells; D006801:Humans; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D026901:Membrane Transport Proteins; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016297:Mutagenesis, Site-Directed; D027361:Organic Anion Transporters; D051381:Rats; D005680:gamma-Aminobutyric Acid / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D002352:Carrier Proteins; D050485:GABA Plasma Membrane Transport Proteins; D008565:Membrane Proteins; D026901:Membrane Transport Proteins; D027361:Organic Anion Transporters; C493413:SLC6A1 protein, human; C493415:Slc6a1 protein, rat; D005680:gamma-Aminobutyric Acid; D004247:DNA