ID:GRM6_HUMAN DESCRIPTION: RecName: Full=Metabotropic glutamate receptor 6; Short=mGluR6; Flags: Precursor; FUNCTION: Receptor for glutamate. The activity of this receptor is mediated by a G-protein that inhibits adenylate cyclase activity. SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: Cell membrane; Multi-pass membrane protein. DISEASE: Defects in GRM6 are the cause of congenital stationary night blindness type 1B (CSNB1B) [MIM:257270]. This disorder consits of a previously unrecognized, autosomal recessive form of congenital night blindness associated with a negative electroretinogram waveform. Patients are night blind from an early age, and when maximally dark-adapted, they could perceive lights only with an intensity equal to or slightly dimmer than that normally detected by the cone system. ERGs in response to single brief flashes of light have clearly detectable a-waves, which are derived from photoreceptors, and greatly reduced b-waves, which are derived from the second-order inner retinal neurons. ERGs in response to sawtooth flickering light indicate a markedly reduced ON response and a nearly normal OFF response. There is no subjective delay in the perception of suddenly appearing white vs black objects on a gray background. SIMILARITY: Belongs to the G-protein coupled receptor 3 family.
The RNAfold program from the Vienna RNA Package is used to perform the secondary structure predictions and folding calculations. The estimated folding energy is in kcal/mol. The more negative the energy, the more secondary structure the RNA is likely to have.
Pfam Domains: PF00003 - 7 transmembrane sweet-taste receptor of 3 GCPR PF01094 - Receptor family ligand binding region PF07562 - Nine Cysteines Domain of family 3 GPCR PF13458 - Periplasmic binding protein
ModBase Predicted Comparative 3D Structure on O15303
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Orthologous Genes in Other Species
Orthologies between human, mouse, and rat are computed by taking the best BLASTP hit, and filtering out non-syntenic hits. For more distant species reciprocal-best BLASTP hits are used. Note that the absence of an ortholog in the table below may reflect incomplete annotations in the other species rather than a true absence of the orthologous gene.
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