Efficient and rapid isolation of native AMPA receptor complexes for cryo-EM.

ABSTRACT: Isolating native ion channels for structural characterization is routinely achieved by extraction from membrane fractions of tissue with prolonged mild detergent treatment. AMPA receptors (AMPARs), glutamatergic receptors that mediate fast excitatory transmission and synaptic plasticity, are coassembled with diverse auxiliary subunits and transiently-interacting partners to finely regulate processes from trafficking to gating kinetics. Previous studies of the composition and architecture of native AMPARs (nAMPARs) isolated from membrane fractions of rodent brain tissue have revealed many different subunit compositions and non-stochastic assemblies of the auxiliary subunits. However, elucidating the molecular architectures of nAMPARs complexed with less populated or transiently bound protei

SUBMITTER: Park J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12831286 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature