Glutamate [NMDA] receptor subunit epsilon 1, Glutamate [NMDA] receptor subunit epsilon-1, Glutamate receptor, Glutamate receptor ionotropic N methyl D aspartate 2A, GRIN 2A, GRIN2A, HNR2A, N methyl D aspartate receptor channel, subunit epsilon 1, N Methyl D Aspartate Receptor Subtype 2A, N methyl D aspartate receptor subunit 2A, N-methyl D-aspartate receptor subtype 2A, NMDA receptor subtype 2A, NMDA Receptor Type 2A, NMDAR 2A, NMDAR2A, NMDE1_HUMAN, NR 2A, NR2A, OTTHUMP00000160135, OTTHUMP00000174531.
N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors are a class of ionotropic glutamate-gated ion channels. These receptors have been shown to be involved in long-term potentiation, an activity-dependent increase in the efficiency of synaptic transmission thought to underlie certain kinds of memory and learning. NMDA receptor channels are heteromers composed of the key receptor subunit NMDAR1 (GRIN1) and 1 or more of the 4 NMDAR2 subunits: NMDAR2A (GRIN2A), NMDAR2B (GRIN2B), NMDAR2C (GRIN2C) and NMDAR2D (GRIN2D). Alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Aug 2008]
