KCNS2 explained

Potassium voltage-gated channel subfamily S member 2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the KCNS2 gene.^{[1] [2]} The protein encoded by this gene is a voltage-gated potassium channel subunit.

Further reading

• Banfi S, Borsani G, Rossi E, etal . Identification and mapping of human cDNAs homologous to Drosophila mutant genes through EST database searching. . Nat. Genet. . 13 . 2 . 167–74 . 1996 . 8640222 . 10.1038/ng0696-167 . 38441640 .
• 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 .
• Hirosawa M, Nagase T, Ishikawa K, etal . Characterization of cDNA clones selected by the GeneMark analysis from size-fractionated cDNA libraries from human brain. . DNA Res. . 6 . 5 . 329–36 . 1999 . 10574461 . 10.1093/dnares/6.5.329 . free .
• Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA, etal . The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC). . Genome Res. . 14 . 10B . 2121–7 . 2004 . 15489334 . 10.1101/gr.2596504 . 528928 .

Notes and References

1. Salinas M, Duprat F, Heurteaux C, Hugnot JP, Lazdunski M . New modulatory alpha subunits for mammalian Shab K+ channels . J Biol Chem . 272 . 39 . 24371–9 . Oct 1997 . 9305895 . 10.1074/jbc.272.39.24371 . free .
2. 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 .