CHRNA2

protein-coding External Resolution
GeneCards NCBI PubMed

External Info (via mygene)

SymbolCHRNA2
Namecholinergic receptor nicotinic alpha 2 subunit
Typeprotein-coding
Sourcemygene

Summary

Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) are ligand-gated ion channels formed by a pentameric arrangement of alpha and beta subunits to create distinct muscle and neuronal receptors. Neuronal receptors are found throughout the peripheral and central nervous system where they are involved in fast synaptic transmission. This gene encodes an alpha subunit that is widely expressed in the brain. The proposed structure for nAChR subunits is a conserved N-terminal extracellular domain followed by thr

14Connections

This is an externally resolved entity

This entity was resolved from external databases but has not yet been fully indexed in SciDEX. You can help by creating a wiki page or running an analysis.