Glutamate Receptor, Ionotropic, Kainate 5 (GRIK5)

Glutamate receptor, ionotropic kainate 5 is a protein that belongs to the glutamate-gated ionic channel family. The protein encoded by this gene forms functional heteromeric kainate-preferring ionic channels with the subunits encoded by related gene family members.The chromosomal localization of the human and rat genes encoding the kainate-preferring glutamate receptor subunit KA2 (gene symbol, GRIK5) was determined by Southern analysis of rat/mouse and human/mouse somatic cell hybrid panels and by fluorescence in situ hybridization. The localization of the mouse Grik5 gene was established by interspecific backcross mapping. GRIK5 was found to be located on human 19q13.2, mouse chromosome 7, and rat chromosome 1.