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A voltage-gated calcium-selective channel encoded by a sodium channel-like gene.

ABSTRACT: BSC1, which was originally identified by its sequence similarity to voltage-gated Na(+) channels, encodes a functional voltage-gated cation channel whose properties differ significantly from Na(+) channels. BSC1 has slower kinetics of activation and inactivation than Na(+) channels, it is more selective for Ba(2+) than for Na(+), it is blocked by Cd(2+), and Na(+) currents through BSC1 are blocked by low concentrations of Ca(2+). All of these properties are more similar to voltage-gated Ca(2+) channels than to voltage-gated Na(+) channels. The selectivity for Ba(2+) is partially due to the presence of a glutamate in the pore-forming region of domain III, since replacing that residue with lysine (normally present in voltage-gated Na(+) channels) makes the channel more selective for Na(+). BSC1 appears to be the prototype of a novel family of invertebrate voltage-dependent cation channels with a close structural and evolutionary relationship to voltage-gated Na(+) and Ca(2+) channels.

SUBMITTER: Zhou W

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3065994 | biostudies-literature | 2004 Apr

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A voltage-gated calcium-selective channel encoded by a sodium channel-like gene.

Zhou Wei W Chung Inbum I Liu Zhiqi Z Goldin Alan L AL Dong Ke K

Neuron 20040401 1

BSC1, which was originally identified by its sequence similarity to voltage-gated Na(+) channels, encodes a functional voltage-gated cation channel whose properties differ significantly from Na(+) channels. BSC1 has slower kinetics of activation and inactivation than Na(+) channels, it is more selective for Ba(2+) than for Na(+), it is blocked by Cd(2+), and Na(+) currents through BSC1 are blocked by low concentrations of Ca(2+). All of these properties are more similar to voltage-gated Ca(2+) c ...[more]

PMID: 15066268

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