Biology:KCNA7

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Short description: Protein-coding gene in the species Homo sapiens


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Potassium voltage-gated channel subfamily A member 7 also known as Kv1.7 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the KCNA7 gene.[1] The protein encoded by this gene is a voltage-gated potassium channel subunit. It may contribute to the cardiac transient outward potassium current (Ito1), the main contributing current to the repolarizing phase 1 of the cardiac action potential.[2]

References

  1. "International Union of Pharmacology. LIII. Nomenclature and molecular relationships of voltage-gated potassium channels". Pharmacol Rev 57 (4): 473–508. Dec 2005. doi:10.1124/pr.57.4.10. PMID 16382104. 
  2. "The molecular physiology of the cardiac transient outward potassium current (I(to)) in normal and diseased myocardium". J. Mol. Cell. Cardiol. 33 (5): 851–72. May 2001. doi:10.1006/jmcc.2001.1376. PMID 11343410. 

Further reading

  • "Initial isolation and analysis of the human Kv1.7 (KCNA7) gene, a member of the voltage-gated potassium channel gene family.". Gene 268 (1–2): 115–22. 2001. doi:10.1016/S0378-1119(01)00423-1. PMID 11368907. 
  • "Genomic organization, chromosomal localization, tissue distribution, and biophysical characterization of a novel mammalian Shaker-related voltage-gated potassium channel, Kv1.7". J. Biol. Chem. 273 (10): 5851–7. 1998. doi:10.1074/jbc.273.10.5851. PMID 9488722. 
  • "[Distribution and significance of cSNP in KCNA7 gene as a novel NIDDM candidate gene in the population of northeast China]". Yi Chuan 25 (2): 129–32. 2003. PMID 15639836. 
  • "Characterisation of the human voltage-gated potassium channel gene, KCNA7, a candidate gene for inherited cardiac disorders, and its exclusion as cause of progressive familial heart block I (PFHBI)". Eur. J. Hum. Genet. 10 (1): 36–43. 2002. doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5200739. PMID 11896454. 

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