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KCNA6
Introduction
Potassium voltage-gated channel subfamily A member 6 also known as Kv1.6 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the KCNA6 gene.[1][1] The protein encoded by this gene is a voltage-gated potassium channel subunit.
References
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Gutman GA, Chandy KG, Grissmer S, Lazdunski M, McKinnon D, Pardo LA, Robertson GA, Rudy B, Sanguinetti MC, Stuhmer W, Wang X (Dec 2005). “International Union of Pharmacology. LIII. Nomenclature and molecular relationships of voltage-gated potassium channels”. Pharmacol Rev. 57 (4): 473–508. doi:10.1124/pr.57.4.10. PMID 16382104.
Further reading
Further reading
- Albrecht B, Weber K, Pongs O (1995). “Characterization of a voltage-activated K-channel gene cluster on human chromosome 12p13”. Recept. Channels. 3 (3): 213–20. PMID 8821794.
- Tan KM, Lennon VA, Klein CJ, et al. (2008). “Clinical spectrum of voltage-gated potassium channel autoimmunity”. Neurology. 70 (20): 1883–90. doi:10.1212/01.wnl.0000312275.04260.a0. PMID 18474843.
- Grupe A, Schröter KH, Ruppersberg JP, et al. (1990). “Cloning and expression of a human voltage-gated potassium channel. A novel member of the RCK potassium channel family”. EMBO J. 9 (6): 1749–56. PMC 551878. PMID 2347305.
- Yusifov T, Savalli N, Gandhi CS, et al. (2008). “The RCK2 domain of the human BKCa channel is a calcium sensor”. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 105 (1): 376–81. Bibcode:2008PNAS..105..376Y. doi:10.1073/pnas.0705261105. PMC 2224220. PMID 18162557.
- Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, et al. (2002). “Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences”. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899–903. Bibcode:2002PNAS…9916899M. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMC 139241. PMID 12477932.
- Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA, et al. (2004). “The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC)”. Genome Res. 14 (10B): 2121–7. doi:10.1101/gr.2596504. PMC 528928. PMID 15489334.
External links
External links
- Kv1.6+Potassium+Channel at the US National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
- KCNA6+protein,+human at the US National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)