KCNA6 explained

Potassium voltage-gated channel subfamily A member 6 also known as K_v1.6 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the KCNA6 gene.^[1] The protein encoded by this gene is a voltage-gated potassium channel subunit.

Further reading

• Albrecht B, Weber K, Pongs O . Characterization of a voltage-activated K-channel gene cluster on human chromosome 12p13. . Recept. Channels . 3 . 3 . 213–20 . 1995 . 8821794 .
• Tan KM, Lennon VA, Klein CJ, etal . Clinical spectrum of voltage-gated potassium channel autoimmunity. . Neurology . 70 . 20 . 1883–90 . 2008 . 18474843 . 10.1212/01.wnl.0000312275.04260.a0 . 34815377 .
• Grupe A, Schröter KH, Ruppersberg JP, etal . 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 . 1990 . 2347305 . 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1990.tb08299.x. 551878 .
• Yusifov T, Savalli N, Gandhi CS, etal . The RCK2 domain of the human BKCa channel is a calcium sensor. . Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. . 105 . 1 . 376–81 . 2008 . 18162557 . 10.1073/pnas.0705261105 . 2224220 . 2008PNAS..105..376Y. free .
• 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 .
• 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. 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 .