Anna Dominik's research while affiliated with Wyższa Szkoła Handlowa we Wrocławiu and other places

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GABA type A receptors (GABAARs) belong to the pentameric ligand-gated ion channel (pLGIC) family and play a crucial role in mediating inhibition in the adult mammalian brain. Recently, a major progress in determining the static structure of GABAARs was achieved, although precise molecular scenarios underlying conformational transitions remain uncle...
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Pentameric ligand gated ion channels (pLGICs) are crucial in electrochemical signaling but exact molecular mechanisms of their activation remain elusive. So far, major effort focused on the top-down molecular pathway between the ligand binding site and the channel gate. However, recent studies revealed that pLGIC activation is associated with coord...

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... 17 However, mutational studies have shown that single amino acid transmembrane domain mutations can either increase or decrease receptor desensitization. [20][21][22][23][24][25] Hence, there is no a priori reason that DEE-associated variants should only affect desensitization in one way. ...
... Given the rigid body movement of the subunit ECD beta barrels, it is natural to expect much of the dynamics to occur at the interfaces between subunits, which include the GABA and BZD binding sites [106]. Only one of the two GABA sites shares the same α subunit as the BZD site, raising the possibility that BZDs may induce local changes that preferentially modulate activation via a single GABA site. ...