Description
Product Characteristics:
Voltage-gated sodium channels are transmembrane glycoprotein complexes composed of a large alpha subunit with 24 transmembrane domains and one or more regulatory beta subunits. They are responsible for the generation and propagation of action potentials in neurons and muscle. This gene encodes one member of the sodium channel alpha subunit gene family. It is heterogeneously expressed in the brain, and mutations in this gene have been linked to several seizure disorders. Several alternatively spliced transcript variants of this gene have been described, but the full-length nature of some of these variants has not been determined.
Subcellular location: Cell membrane
Synonyms: sodium channel voltage-gated type II alpha, sodium channel, voltage-gated, type II, alpha isoform 2, HBSC II, NAC2, Scn2a, SCN2A_HUMAN, Sodium channel protein type II subunit alpha, Sodium channel protein type 2 subunit alpha, Sodium channel protein type II subunit alpha, Sodium channel protein, brain II subunit alph, Voltage-gated sodium channel subunit alpha Nav1.2, Voltage gated sodium channel subunit alpha Nav1.2, BFIC3, HBA, HBSCI, HBSCII, Nav1.2, NAC2, Nav1.2, SCN2A1, SCN2A2.
Target Information: Voltage-gated sodium channels are transmembrane glycoprotein complexes composed of a large alpha subunit with 24 transmembrane domains and one or more regulatory beta subunits. They are responsible for the generation and propagation of action potentials in neurons and muscle. This gene encodes one member of the sodium channel alpha subunit gene family. It is heterogeneously expressed in the brain, and mutations in this gene have been linked to several seizure disorders. Several alternatively spliced transcript variants of this gene have been described, but the full-length nature of some of these variants has not been determined. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]