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SUBMITTER: Kunkel MT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6772866 | biostudies-literature | 2000 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kunkel M T MT Johnstone D B DB Thomas J H JH Salkoff L L
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 20001001 20
Within the Caenorhabditis elegans genome there exist at least 42 genes encoding TWK (two-P domain K(+)) channels, potassium channel subunits that contain two pore regions and four transmembrane domains. We now report the first functional characterization of a TWK channel from C. elegans. Although potassium channels have been reported to be activated by a variety of factors, TWK-18 currents increase dramatically with increases in temperature. Two mutant alleles of the twk-18 gene confer uncoordin ...[more]