GABBR1
Gamma-aminobutyric acid type B receptor subunit 1
Also known as: GABR1_HUMAN, GPRC3A, hGB1a
Cross-references: UniProt · Ensembl · Human Protein Atlas · GeneCards · NCBI Gene
Protein identityUniProt · HPA
- UniProt accession
- Q9UBS5
- Gene
- GABBR1
- Ensembl
- ENSG00000204681
- Chromosome
- 6
- Canonical length
- 961 aa
- Protein class
- FDA approved drug targets, G-protein coupled receptors, Plasma proteins, Predicted membrane proteins
- Subcellular location
- Basal body,Cytosol
- Secretome location
- Intracellular and membrane
- Quaternary structure
- Homodimer
OverviewNCBI Gene
This gene encodes a receptor for gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), which is the main inhibitory neurotransmitter in the mammalian central nervous system. This receptor functions as a heterodimer with GABA(B) receptor 2. Defects in this gene may underlie brain disorders such as schizophrenia and epilepsy. Alternative splicing generates multiple transcript variants, but the full-length nature of some of these variants has not been determined. [provided by RefSeq, Jan 2016]
Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt
961 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.
>Q9UBS5|GABBR1
1 MLLLLLLAPL FLRPPGAGGA QTPNATSEGC QIIHPPWEGG IRYRGLTRDQ VKAINFLPVD
61 YEIEYVCRGE REVVGPKVRK CLANGSWTDM DTPSRCVRIC SKSYLTLENG KVFLTGGDLP
121 ALDGARVDFR CDPDFHLVGS SRSICSQGQW STPKPHCQVN RTPHSERRAV YIGALFPMSG
181 GWPGGQACQP AVEMALEDVN SRRDILPDYE LKLIHHDSKC DPGQATKYLY ELLYNDPIKI
241 ILMPGCSSVS TLVAEAARMW NLIVLSYGSS SPALSNRQRF PTFFRTHPSA TLHNPTRVKL
301 FEKWGWKKIA TIQQTTEVFT STLDDLEERV KEAGIEITFR QSFFSDPAVP VKNLKRQDAR
361 IIVGLFYETE ARKVFCEVYK ERLFGKKYVW FLIGWYADNW FKIYDPSINC TVDEMTEAVE
421 GHITTEIVML NPANTRSISN MTSQEFVEKL TKRLKRHPEE TGGFQEAPLA YDAIWALALA
481 LNKTSGGGGR SGVRLEDFNY NNQTITDQIY RAMNSSSFEG VSGHVVFDAS GSRMAWTLIE
541 QLQGGSYKKI GYYDSTKDDL SWSKTDKWIG GSPPADQTLV IKTFRFLSQK LFISVSVLSS
601 LGIVLAVVCL SFNIYNSHVR YIQNSQPNLN NLTAVGCSLA LAAVFPLGLD GYHIGRNQFP
661 FVCQARLWLL GLGFSLGYGS MFTKIWWVHT VFTKKEEKKE WRKTLEPWKL YATVGLLVGM
721 DVLTLAIWQI VDPLHRTIET FAKEEPKEDI DVSILPQLEH CSSRKMNTWL GIFYGYKGLL
781 LLLGIFLAYE TKSVSTEKIN DHRAVGMAIY NVAVLCLITA PVTMILSSQQ DAAFAFASLA
841 IVFSSYITLV VLFVPKMRRL ITRGEWQSEA QDTMKTGSST NNNEEEKSRL LEKENRELEK
901 IIAEKEERVS ELRHQLQSRQ QLRSRRHPPT PPEPSGGLPR GPPEPPDRLS CDGSRVHLLY
961 KLocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA
Whether an antibody against GABBR1 can act on the native protein depends on physical access: surface and secreted proteins are reachable by circulating antibodies, intracellular proteins usually are not.
- Antibody reachability
- Cell surface
- Secreted
- No
- Transmembrane segments
- 7
- Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
- 0.31
- Highest tissue expression
- 224 nTPM
Expression across tissuesHPA
Tissue
- basal ganglia: 224 nTPM
- cerebral cortex: 208 nTPM
- amygdala: 166 nTPM
- cerebellum: 146 nTPM
- hypothalamus: 121 nTPM
- hippocampal formation: 119 nTPM
Single-cell type
- bergmann glia: 308 nCPM
- astrocytes: 293 nCPM
- brain inhibitory neurons: 123 nCPM
- oligodendrocyte progenitor cells: 121 nCPM
- brain excitatory neurons: 97 nCPM
- other brain neurons: 95 nCPM
Immune cell
- basophil: 0 nTPM
- classical monocyte: 0 nTPM
- eosinophil: 0 nTPM
- gdT-cell: 0 nTPM
- intermediate monocyte: 0 nTPM
- MAIT T-cell: 0 nTPM
Brain region
- thalamus: 123 nTPM
- amygdala: 107 nTPM
- white matter: 92 nTPM
- cerebral cortex: 90 nTPM
- midbrain: 85 nTPM
- basal ganglia: 82 nTPM
DiseaseUniProt · ClinVar · IEDB · PubMed
Four sources answering four different questions about GABBR1.
Disease | AllUniProt
Conditions GABBR1 is implicated in, by any mechanism.
- Neurodevelopmental disorder with language delay and variable cognitive abnormalities (NEDLC) MIM:620502
Disease | GeneticClinVar
8 pathogenic / likely-pathogenic of 190 ClinVar records.
Conditions with pathogenic or likely-pathogenic variants.
- Neurodevelopmental disorder with language delay and variable cognitive abnormalities
- Intellectual disability
- Global developmental delay
- Delayed speech and language development
- Atypical behavior
Disease | AutoantibodyPubMed
Conditions in which antibodies against GABBR1 are reported. Each links to that disease's full target list.
- Encephalitis 18
- Limbic Encephalitis 12
- Hashimoto Disease 10
- Lung Neoplasms 9
- Seizures 5
- Adenocarcinoma 3
- Paraneoplastic Syndromes, Nervous System 3
Showing 7 of 9 — disease pages carrying at least 10 antigens.
ReferencesPubMed · IEDB
Publications for GABBR1 from three distinct lines of evidence, kept separate because they answer different questions: whether antibodies are directed at the protein, whether a B-cell epitope has been mapped on it, and whether a T-cell epitope has. Each is labelled with its source.
Reference: AutoantibodyPubMed
32 publications
- Encephalitis and GABAB receptor antibodies: novel findings in a new case series of 20 patients.
2013 · Neurology · RCR 12.2 · 331 citations - Autoimmune seizures and epilepsy.
2019 · J Clin Invest · RCR 8.4 · 167 citations - Epidemiology of Antibody-Positive Autoimmune Encephalitis in Southwest China: A Multicenter Study.
2019 · Front Immunol · RCR 3.3 · 58 citations - Isolated seizures are a common early feature of paraneoplastic anti-GABAB receptor encephalitis.
2019 · J Neurol · RCR 3.3 · 58 citations - GABAB receptor autoantibody frequency in service serologic evaluation.
2013 · Neurology · RCR 3 · 96 citations
Show 20 more of 32 total
- Autoimmune encephalitis with anti-IgLON5 and anti-GABAB-receptor antibodies: A case report.
2019 · Medicine (Baltimore) · RCR 1.8 · 30 citations - Aggressive course in encephalitis with opsoclonus, ataxia, chorea, and seizures: the first pediatric case of γ-aminobutyric acid type B receptor autoimmunity.
2014 · JAMA Neurol · RCR 1.8 · 41 citations - GABAB receptor antibodies in paraneoplastic cerebellar ataxia.
2013 · J Neuroimmunol · RCR 1.7 · 50 citations - Pathogenic potential of antibodies to the GABAB receptor.
2017 · Epilepsia Open · RCR 1.3 · 32 citations - GABA-B-receptor antibodies in paraneoplastic brainstem encephalitis.
2013 · J Neuroimmunol · RCR 1.3 · 34 citations - Case Report: Limbic encephalitis following treatment with durvalumab for small-cell lung cancer.
2023 · Front Immunol · RCR 1.1 · 9 citations - Prolonged Magnesium Sulphate Infusion in the Management of Super-Refractory Status Epilepticus in a Probable Anti-GABA-B Autoimmune Encephalitis.
2024 · Neurol India · RCR 0.9 · 2 citations - Coexistence of Anti-SOX1 and Anti-GABAB Receptor Antibodies with Autoimmune Encephalitis in Small Cell Lung Cancer: A Case Report.
2020 · Clin Interv Aging · RCR 0.9 · 12 citations - Coexistence of anti-SOX1 and anti-GABAB receptor antibodies with paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis presenting with seizures and memory impairment in small cell lung cancer: A case report.
2022 · Front Immunol · RCR 0.8 · 9 citations - Paraneoplastic Lambert-Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome With Limbic Encephalitis: Clinical Correlation With the Coexistence of Anti-VGCC and Anti-GABAB Receptor Antibodies.
2017 · J Clin Neuromuscul Dis · RCR 0.6 · 12 citations - Anti-GABAB receptor encephalitis in a patient with gastric adenocarcinoma.
2018 · Neurol Sci · RCR 0.5 · 10 citations - Postvaccinal GABA-B receptor antibody encephalitis after ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccination.
2022 · Ann Clin Transl Neurol · RCR 0.4 · 5 citations - GABAB receptor encephalitis in a patient diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
2019 · BMC Neurol · RCR 0.4 · 9 citations - Autoimmune encephalitis with coexistent LGI1 and GABABR1 antibodies: case report.
2021 · BMC Neurol · RCR 0.4 · 5 citations - Lambert-Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome Complicated by Anti-GABAB Receptor Encephalitis.
2024 · Intern Med · RCR 0.3 · 1 citations - [GABAB receptor autoimmune encephalitis presenting as transient epileptic amnesia].
2021 · Rinsho Shinkeigaku · RCR 0.3 · 4 citations - GABABR-Mediated Paraneoplastic Limbic Encephalitis Due To Thymic Small Cell Carcinoma.
2019 · J Gen Intern Med · RCR 0.2 · 3 citations - GABA-B Receptor Encephalitis Triggered by Enterovirus Encephalitis in a Patient With Small Cell Lung Cancer: A Case Report.
2020 · Neurologist · RCR 0.2 · 3 citations - Neuroendocrine tumour metastatic brain disease during immunosuppressive treatment for paraneoplastic GABAB receptor antibodies encephalitis: Is immunosuppression always beneficial?
2017 · J Neuroimmunol · RCR 0.1 · 3 citations - Duodenal Neuroendocrine Tumour Presenting as GABA B Receptor Autoimmune Encephalitis.
2019 · Case Rep Neurol Med · RCR 0.1 · 2 citations
Sources: PubMed — antigen-level antibody evidence from a custom retrieval. Records matching a controlled set of autoantibody terms (the MeSH descriptors Autoantibodies and Autoantigens, with title and abstract term variants) were obtained through NCBI E-utilities, and their titles and abstracts parsed for constructions that direct an antibody at a named protein rather than for co-occurrence. Captured names were resolved against UniProt nomenclature and each antigen adjudicated individually against the source text. Bibliographic records from PubMed and MeSH, U.S. National Library of Medicine; citation metrics from NIH iCite (Hutchins et al., PLoS Biology 2016). Titles link to PubMed; abstracts are not reproduced here. The NLM does not endorse this analysis.
Genetic constraint and essentialitygnomAD · DepMap
Does the body need this protein intact? Low LOEUF or a strong DepMap dependency means loss or blockade of the protein is likely to be felt.
- gnomAD LOEUF (loss-of-function intolerance)
- 0.22
- gnomAD pLI
- 1
- gnomAD missense Z
- 4.82
- DepMap mean gene effect
- -0.05
- DepMap dependency class
- selective
Cancer expressionTCGA
Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 5% of surveyed tumor types (aggregate summary; per-cohort expression, alteration, and survival load in the interactive view).
OntologyGO
Biological processes
- adenylate cyclase-inhibiting G protein-coupled receptor signaling pathway
- gamma-aminobutyric acid signaling pathway
- negative regulation of cell population proliferation
- negative regulation of dopamine secretion
- negative regulation of epinephrine secretion
- negative regulation of gamma-aminobutyric acid secretion
- negative regulation of synaptic transmission
- neuron-glial cell signaling
- osteoblast differentiation
- positive regulation of glutamate secretion
- positive regulation of growth hormone secretion
- response to ethanol
- response to nicotine
- synaptic transmission, GABAergic
Molecular functions
- extracellular matrix protein binding
- G protein-coupled GABA receptor activity
- G protein-coupled neurotransmitter receptor activity involved in regulation of postsynaptic membrane potential
- G protein-coupled neurotransmitter receptor activity involved in regulation of presynaptic membrane potential
- protein heterodimerization activity
Cellular components
- axolemma
- dendritic shaft
- dendritic spine
- endoplasmic reticulum membrane
- extracellular space
- G protein-coupled GABA receptor complex
- G protein-coupled receptor heterodimeric complex
- GABA-ergic synapse
- glutamatergic synapse
- mitochondrial membrane
- neuronal cell body
- plasma membrane
- postsynaptic membrane
- presynaptic membrane
- Schaffer collateral - CA1 synapse
- synaptic vesicle
Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro
- Sushi/SCR/CCP domain
- Receptor, ligand binding region
- GPCR family 3, GABA-B receptor
- GPCR family 3, C-terminal
- Periplasmic binding protein-like I
- Sushi/SCR/CCP superfamily
- 7 transmembrane sweet-taste receptor of 3 GCPR
- Sushi repeat (SCR repeat)
- Receptor family ligand binding region
- GPCR family 3, gamma-aminobutyric acid receptor, type B1
KeywordsUniProt
InteractionsUniProt · HPA
Protein binding partners of GABBR1 in the human serome: UniProt-annotated complex subunits plus reported interactors. Each links to its own Seroatlas record.
Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis
Seroatlas reads GABBR1 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against GABBR1 could matter depends on whether native GABBR1 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.
GABBR1 is annotated at the cell surface, where native GABBR1 is exposed to circulating antibodies and is a prime autoantibody target that could block, deplete, or overstimulate it.
Annotation status
The present source text does not explicitly label GABBR1 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.
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