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SUBMITTER: Castellano A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6573349 | biostudies-literature | 1997 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Castellano A A Chiara M D MD Mellström B B Molina A A Monje F F Naranjo J R JR López-Barneo J J
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 19970601 12
The physiological diversity of K+ channels mainly depends on the expression of several genes encoding different alpha-subunits. We have cloned a new K+ channel alpha-subunit (Kv2.3r) that is unable to form functional channels on its own but that has a major regulatory function. Kv2.3r can coassemble selectively with other alpha-subunits to form functional heteromultimeric K+ channels with kinetic properties that differ from those of the parent channels. Kv2.3r is expressed exclusively in the bra ...[more]