GRIA3
Glutamate receptor 3
Also known as: GluA3, GLUR3, GLURC, GRIA3_HUMAN, MRX94
Cross-references: UniProt · Ensembl · Human Protein Atlas · GeneCards · NCBI Gene
Protein identityUniProt · HPA
- UniProt accession
- P42263
- Gene
- GRIA3
- Ensembl
- ENSG00000125675
- Chromosome
- X
- Canonical length
- 894 aa
- Protein class
- Disease related genes, Human disease related genes, Potential drug targets, Predicted intracellular proteins, Predicted membrane proteins, Transporters
- Secretome location
- Intracellular and membrane
- Quaternary structure
- Homotetramer
OverviewNCBI Gene
Glutamate receptors are the predominant excitatory neurotransmitter receptors in the mammalian brain and are activated in a variety of normal neurophysiologic processes. These receptors are heteromeric protein complexes composed of multiple subunits, arranged to form ligand-gated ion channels. The classification of glutamate receptors is based on their activation by different pharmacologic agonists. The subunit encoded by this gene belongs to a family of AMPA (alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazole propionate)-sensitive glutamate receptors, and is subject to RNA editing (AGA->GGA; R->G). Alternative splicing at this locus results in different isoforms, which may vary in their signal transduction properties. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]
Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt
894 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.
>P42263|GRIA3
1 MARQKKMGQS VLRAVFFLVL GLLGHSHGGF PNTISIGGLF MRNTVQEHSA FRFAVQLYNT
61 NQNTTEKPFH LNYHVDHLDS SNSFSVTNAF CSQFSRGVYA IFGFYDQMSM NTLTSFCGAL
121 HTSFVTPSFP TDADVQFVIQ MRPALKGAIL SLLGHYKWEK FVYLYDTERG FSILQAIMEA
181 AVQNNWQVTA RSVGNIKDVQ EFRRIIEEMD RRQEKRYLID CEVERINTIL EQVVILGKHS
241 RGYHYMLANL GFTDILLERV MHGGANITGF QIVNNENPMV QQFIQRWVRL DEREFPEAKN
301 APLKYTSALT HDAILVIAEA FRYLRRQRVD VSRRGSAGDC LANPAVPWSQ GIDIERALKM
361 VQVQGMTGNI QFDTYGRRTN YTIDVYEMKV SGSRKAGYWN EYERFVPFSD QQISNDSASS
421 ENRTIVVTTI LESPYVMYKK NHEQLEGNER YEGYCVDLAY EIAKHVRIKY KLSIVGDGKY
481 GARDPETKIW NGMVGELVYG RADIAVAPLT ITLVREEVID FSKPFMSLGI SIMIKKPQKS
541 KPGVFSFLDP LAYEIWMCIV FAYIGVSVVL FLVSRFSPYE WHLEDNNEEP RDPQSPPDPP
601 NEFGIFNSLW FSLGAFMQQG CDISPRSLSG RIVGGVWWFF TLIIISSYTA NLAAFLTVER
661 MVSPIESAED LAKQTEIAYG TLDSGSTKEF FRRSKIAVYE KMWSYMKSAE PSVFTKTTAD
721 GVARVRKSKG KFAFLLESTM NEYIEQRKPC DTMKVGGNLD SKGYGVATPK GSALRNAVNL
781 AVLKLNEQGL LDKLKNKWWY DKGECGSGGG DSKDKTSALS LSNVAGVFYI LVGGLGLAMM
841 VALIEFCYKS RAESKRMKLT KNTQNFKPAP ATNTQNYATY REGYNVYGTE SVKILocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA
Whether an antibody against GRIA3 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
- 3
- Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
- 0.3
- Highest tissue expression
- 39 nTPM
Expression across tissuesHPA
Tissue
- cerebral cortex: 39 nTPM
- hippocampal formation: 29 nTPM
- basal ganglia: 27 nTPM
- amygdala: 20 nTPM
- retina: 16 nTPM
- midbrain: 15 nTPM
Single-cell type
- retinal horizontal cells: 1,052 nCPM
- brain inhibitory neurons: 517 nCPM
- oligodendrocyte progenitor cells: 499 nCPM
- brain excitatory neurons: 442 nCPM
- retinal amacrine cells: 289 nCPM
- pancreatic islet cells: 267 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
- cerebral cortex: 82 nTPM
- hippocampal formation: 72 nTPM
- basal ganglia: 60 nTPM
- white matter: 59 nTPM
- amygdala: 49 nTPM
- hypothalamus: 30 nTPM
DiseaseUniProt · ClinVar · IEDB · PubMed
Four sources answering four different questions about GRIA3.
Disease | AllUniProt
Conditions GRIA3 is implicated in, by any mechanism.
- Intellectual developmental disorder, X-linked, syndromic, Wu type (MRXSW) MIM:300699
Disease | GeneticClinVar
40 pathogenic / likely-pathogenic of 742 ClinVar records.
Conditions with pathogenic or likely-pathogenic variants.
- Syndromic X-linked intellectual disability 94
- Inborn genetic diseases
- GRIA3-related disorder
- Seizure
- See cases
Disease | AutoantibodyPubMed
Conditions in which antibodies against GRIA3 are reported. Each links to that disease's full target list.
- Encephalitis 20
- Epilepsy 8
- Seizures 5
ReferencesPubMed · IEDB
Publications for GRIA3 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
35 publications
- Autoantibodies to glutamate receptor GluR3 in Rasmussen's encephalitis.
1994 · Science · RCR 14.6 · 522 citations - Glutamate receptor antibodies activate a subset of receptors and reveal an agonist binding site.
1995 · Neuron · RCR 4.5 · 178 citations - Human T cells express a functional ionotropic glutamate receptor GluR3, and glutamate by itself triggers integrin-mediated adhesion to laminin and fibronectin and chemotactic migration.
2003 · J Immunol · RCR 3 · 150 citations - GluR3 antibodies: prevalence in focal epilepsy but no specificity for Rasmussen's encephalitis.
2001 · Neurology · RCR 2.7 · 116 citations - Anti-GluA3 antibodies in frontotemporal dementia: effects on glutamatergic neurotransmission and synaptic failure.
2020 · Neurobiol Aging · RCR 2.7 · 43 citations
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- Antibodies against GluR3 peptides are not specific for Rasmussen's encephalitis but are also present in epilepsy patients with severe, early onset disease and intractable seizures.
2002 · J Neuroimmunol · RCR 2.5 · 114 citations - Autoimmune Epilepsy - Novel Multidisciplinary Analysis, Discoveries and Insights.
2021 · Front Immunol · RCR 2.4 · 22 citations - Long-term selective IgG immuno-adsorption improves Rasmussen's encephalitis.
1998 · Neurology · RCR 2.3 · 72 citations - Glutamate receptor GluR3 antibodies and death of cortical cells.
1998 · Neuron · RCR 2.3 · 98 citations - Epilepsy and the immune system.
2000 · Arch Neurol · RCR 2.2 · 77 citations - Absence of antibodies to glutamate receptor type 3 (GluR3) in Rasmussen encephalitis.
2004 · Neurology · RCR 1.9 · 88 citations - Chronic steroid-responsive encephalitis without autoantibodies to glutamate receptor GluR3.
1996 · Neurology · RCR 1.9 · 55 citations - GluR3 autoantibodies destroy neural cells in a complement-dependent manner modulated by complement regulatory proteins.
2000 · J Neurosci · RCR 1.6 · 77 citations - Anti-GluA3 autoantibodies define a new sub-population of frontotemporal lobar degeneration patients with distinct neuropathological features.
2024 · Brain Behav Immun · RCR 1.6 · 8 citations - Autoimmunity to munc-18 in Rasmussen's encephalitis.
2000 · Neuron · RCR 1.4 · 58 citations - Anti-AMPA GluA3 antibodies in Frontotemporal dementia: a new molecular target.
2017 · Sci Rep · RCR 1.3 · 35 citations - Autoimmune epilepsy: distinct subpopulations of epilepsy patients harbor serum autoantibodies to either glutamate/AMPA receptor GluR3, glutamate/NMDA receptor subunit NR2A or double-stranded DNA.
2005 · Epilepsy Res · RCR 1.2 · 47 citations - Autoimmunity to the glutamate receptor in mice--a model for Rasmussen's encephalitis?
1999 · J Autoimmun · RCR 1.2 · 46 citations - Autoantibodies to glutamate receptors can damage the brain in epilepsy, systemic lupus erythematosus and encephalitis.
2008 · Expert Rev Neurother · RCR 1 · 39 citations - Autoimmune encephalitis and CSF anti-AMPA GluR3 antibodies in childhood: a case report and literature review.
2022 · Neurol Sci · RCR 0.8 · 7 citations - GluA3 autoantibodies induce alterations in dendritic spine and behavior in mice.
2021 · Brain Behav Immun · RCR 0.7 · 11 citations - Glutamate receptor subunit 3 (GluR3) immunoreactivity delineates a subpopulation of parvalbumin-containing interneurons in the rat hippocampus.
2003 · J Comp Neurol · RCR 0.7 · 32 citations - Autoantibodies against an extracellular peptide of the GluR3 subtype of AMPA receptors activate both homomeric and heteromeric AMPA receptor channels.
2006 · Neurochem Res · RCR 0.6 · 28 citations - Rasmussen's syndrome.
2003 · Neurol Sci · RCR 0.6 · 23 citations - Autoimmune Encephalitis and CSF Anti-GluR3 Antibodies in an MS Patient after Alemtuzumab Treatment.
2019 · Brain Sci · RCR 0.4 · 8 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)
- 0.19
- gnomAD pLI
- 1
- gnomAD missense Z
- 4.23
- DepMap mean gene effect
- 0.06
- DepMap dependency class
- none
Cancer expressionTCGA
Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 3% of surveyed tumor types (aggregate summary; per-cohort expression, alteration, and survival load in the interactive view).
OntologyGO
Biological processes
- glutamate receptor signaling pathway
- long-term synaptic potentiation
- modulation of chemical synaptic transmission
- protein heterotetramerization
- protein homotetramerization
- synaptic transmission, glutamatergic
Molecular functions
- AMPA glutamate receptor activity
- amyloid-beta binding
- glutamate-gated calcium ion channel activity
- glutamate-gated receptor activity
- ligand-gated monoatomic ion channel activity involved in regulation of presynaptic membrane potential
- transmitter-gated monoatomic ion channel activity involved in regulation of postsynaptic membrane potential
Cellular components
Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro
- Ionotropic glutamate receptor, C-terminal
- Ionotropic glutamate receptor, metazoa
- Receptor, ligand binding region
- Ionotropic glutamate receptor
- Ionotropic glutamate receptor, L-glutamate and glycine-binding domain
- Periplasmic binding protein-like I
- Ligand-gated ion channel
- Receptor family ligand binding region
- Ligated ion channel L-glutamate- and glycine-binding site
KeywordsUniProt
InteractionsUniProt · HPA
Protein binding partners of GRIA3 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 GRIA3 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against GRIA3 could matter depends on whether native GRIA3 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.
GRIA3 is annotated at the cell surface, where native GRIA3 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 GRIA3 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.
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