Glutamate receptor phosphorylation and synaptic plasticity

Curr Opin Neurobiol. 1994 Jun;4(3):383-8. doi: 10.1016/0959-4388(94)90100-7.

Abstract

The recent findings that glutamate receptors are phosphorylated and functionally modulated by protein kinases has provided evidence that phosphorylation of these receptors may play a critical role in mechanisms of synaptic plasticity.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Humans
  • Neuronal Plasticity*
  • Phosphoric Monoester Hydrolases / physiology
  • Phosphorylation
  • Protein Kinases / physiology
  • Receptors, AMPA / metabolism
  • Receptors, Glutamate / metabolism*
  • Receptors, Kainic Acid / metabolism
  • Receptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate / metabolism
  • Synapses / physiology*

Substances

  • Receptors, AMPA
  • Receptors, Glutamate
  • Receptors, Kainic Acid
  • Receptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate
  • Protein Kinases
  • Phosphoric Monoester Hydrolases