The electrically silent Kv6.4 subunit confers hyperpolarized gating charge movement in Kv2.1/Kv6.4 heterotetrameric channels

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Bocksteins, Elke ^a,b   Labro, Alain J ^a   Snyders, Dirk J ^a   Mohapatra, Durga P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM CHANNEL KV2.1; POTASSIUM CHANNEL KV6.4; POTASSIUM ION; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPERPOLARIZATION; MAMMAL CELL; NONHUMAN; POTASSIUM CONDUCTANCE; POTASSIUM CURRENT; POTASSIUM TRANSPORT; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT;

CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; ELECTRICITY; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; ION CHANNEL GATING; KINETICS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; POTASSIUM; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; SHAB POTASSIUM CHANNELS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84861204392     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0037143     Document Type: Article

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