KCNA10 explained

Potassium voltage-gated channel subfamily A member 10 also known as K_v1.8 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the KCNA10 gene.^[1] The protein encoded by this gene is a voltage-gated potassium channel subunit.

Further reading

• Landes GM, Curran ME, Keating MT . Molecular characterization and refined genomic localization of three human potassium ion channel genes. . Cytogenet. Cell Genet. . 70 . 3–4 . 280–4 . 1995 . 7789190 . 10.1159/000134052 .
• Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, etal . 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 . 2002 . 12477932 . 10.1073/pnas.242603899 . 139241 . 2002PNAS...9916899M . free .
• Tian S, Liu W, Wu Y, etal . Regulation of the voltage-gated K+ channel KCNA10 by KCNA4B, a novel beta-subunit . Am. J. Physiol. Renal Physiol. . 283 . 1 . F142–9 . 2002 . 12060596 . 10.1152/ajprenal.00258.2001 . 87148775 .
• Orias M, Bray-Ward P, Curran ME, etal . Genomic localization of the human gene for KCNA10, a cGMP-activated K channel . Genomics . 42 . 1 . 33–7 . 1997 . 9177773 . 10.1006/geno.1997.4712 . free .
• Lang R, Lee G, Liu W, etal . KCNA10: a novel ion channel functionally related to both voltage-gated potassium and CNG cation channels . Am. J. Physiol. Renal Physiol. . 278 . 6 . F1013–21 . 2000 . 10836990 . 10.1152/ajprenal.2000.278.6.F1013. 15360695 .
• Yao X, Tian S, Chan HY, etal . Expression of KCNA10, a voltage-gated K channel, in glomerular endothelium and at the apical membrane of the renal proximal tubule . J. Am. Soc. Nephrol. . 13 . 12 . 2831–9 . 2002 . 12444201 . 10.1097/01.ASN.0000036866.37886.C5 . free .

Notes and References

1. Gutman GA, Chandy KG, Grissmer S, Lazdunski M, McKinnon D, Pardo LA, Robertson GA, Rudy B, Sanguinetti MC, Stuhmer W, Wang X . International Union of Pharmacology. LIII. Nomenclature and molecular relationships of voltage-gated potassium channels . Pharmacol Rev . 57 . 4 . 473–508 . Dec 2005 . 16382104 . 10.1124/pr.57.4.10 . 219195192 .