Description
Product Characteristics: Function: Pore-forming (alpha) subunit of voltage-gated potassium channel. Elicits an outward current, but shows no inactivation. Channel properties may be modulated by cAMP and subunit assembly. Tissue specificity: Highly expressed in adult testis, and in adult and embryonic brain. In adult brain found in piriform cortex, olfactory tubercle, cerebral cortex, hippocampus pyramidial cells and dentate gyrus and basal ganglia of caudate/putamen and accumbens nucleus. Detected at intermediate levels in lung, spinal cord, and pituitary. Subcellular location: Membrane, Multi-pass membrane protein.,Voltage-gated,Potassium voltage-gated channel subfamily H member 4, Voltage-gated potassium channel subunit Kv12.3, Ether-a-go-go-like potassium channel 1, ELK channel 1, Elk1, Brain-specific eag-like channel 2, BEC2, Elk1, Elk3
Target Information: Voltage-gated potassium (Kv) channels represent the most complex class of voltage-gated ion channels from both functional and structural standpoints. Their diverse functions include regulating neurotransmitter release, heart rate, insulin secretion, neuronal excitability, epithelial electrolyte transport, smooth muscle contraction, and cell volume. This gene encodes a member of the potassium channel, voltage-gated, subfamily H. This member is a pore-forming (alpha) subunit. The gene is brain-specific, and located in the neocortex and the striatum. It may be involved in cellular excitability of restricted neurons in the central nervous system. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]