GRIK5

Gene Information
  • Official Symbol: GRIK5
  • Official Name: glutamate ionotropic receptor kainate type subunit 5
  • Aliases and Previous Symbols: N/A
  • Entrez ID: 2901
  • UniProt: Q16478
  • Interactions: BioGRID
  • PubMed articles: Open PubMed
  • OMIM: Open OMIM
Function Summary
  • Entrez Summary: N/A
  • UniProt Summary: Receptor for glutamate. L-glutamate acts as an excitatory neurotransmitter at many synapses in the central nervous system. The postsynaptic actions of Glu are mediated by a variety of receptors that are named according to their selective agonists. This receptor binds kainate > quisqualate > domoate > L- glutamate » AMPA » NMDA = 1S,3R-ACPD.

Pfam Domains GO Terms


CRISPR Data

Compound Hit Most Correlated Genes in Chemogenomics Tissues where Essential in the Avana Dataset (DepMap 20Q1)

Essentiality in NALM6
  • Essentiality Rank: 3508
  • Expression level (log2 read counts): 0.41

Expression Distribution

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