Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.4.0)
Enables ligand-gated channel activity. Involved in gamma-aminobutyric acid secretion, neurotransmission; glutamate secretion; and regulation of synaptic plasticity. Acts upstream of or within detection of light stimulus involved in visual perception and regulation of calcium ion transport. Located in membrane microdomain. Is expressed in choroid plexus; neocortex; and telencephalon meninges. Used to study bestrophinopathy and vitelliform macular dystrophy. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in autosomal dominant vitreoretinochoroidopathy; bestrophinopathy; macular degeneration; retinitis pigmentosa 50; and vitelliform macular dystrophy. Orthologous to human BEST1 (bestrophin 1).
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