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Voltage-gated Potassium Channels and the Diversity of Electrical Signaling [PDF]

The Journal of Physiology, 2012
Abstract  Since Hodgkin and Huxley discovered the potassium current that underlies the falling phase of action potentials in the squid giant axon, the diversity of voltage‐gated potassium (Kv) channels has been manifested in multiple ways. The large and extended potassium channel family is evolutionarily conserved molecularly and functionally ...
Jan, Lily Yeh, Jan, Yuh Nung
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Synthetic ShK-like Peptide from the Jellyfish Nemopilema nomurai Has Human Voltage-Gated Potassium-Channel-Blocking Activity

Marine Drugs
We identified a new human voltage-gated potassium channel blocker, NnK-1, in the jellyfish Nemopilema nomurai based on its genomic information. The gene sequence encoding NnK-1 contains 5408 base pairs, with five introns and six exons.
Ye-Ji Kim, Yejin Jo, Seung Eun Lee, Jungeun Kim, Jae-Pil Choi, Nayoung Lee, Hyokyoung Won, Dong Ho Woo, Seungshic Yum   +8 more
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Two-stage electro–mechanical coupling of a KV channel in voltage-dependent activation

Nature Communications, 2020
In voltage-gated potassium (KV) channels, the voltage-sensing domain (VSD) undergoes activation states to trigger pore opening via electro–mechanical (E–M) coupling. Here authors show that KV7.1 undergoes a two-stage E–M coupling mechanism during voltage-
Panpan Hou, Po Wei Kang, Audrey Deyawe Kongmeneck, Nien-Du Yang, Yongfeng Liu, Jingyi Shi, Xianjin Xu, Kelli McFarland White, Mark A. Zaydman, Marina A. Kasimova, Guiscard Seebohm, Ling Zhong, Xiaoqin Zou, Mounir Tarek, Jianmin Cui   +14 more
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Studies of Conorfamide-Sr3 on Human Voltage-Gated Kv1 Potassium Channel Subtypes

Marine Drugs, 2020
Recently, Conorfamide-Sr3 (CNF-Sr3) was isolated from the venom of Conus spurius and was demonstrated to have an inhibitory concentration-dependent effect on the Shaker K+ channel.
Estuardo López-Vera, Luis Martínez-Hernández, Manuel B. Aguilar, Elisa Carrillo, Joanna Gajewiak   +4 more
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Molecular Studies of Voltage-gated Potassium Channels

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology, 1990
The cloning and characterization of the voltage-activated Shaker potassium channel gene in Drosophila have led to the identification of structural elements involved in potassium channel gating. As found for the voltage-activated sodium channel, the S4 segment, located in the conserved core of the protein, plays a central role in voltage-dependent ...
E, Isacoff, D, Papazian, L, Timpe, Y N, Jan, L Y, Jan   +4 more
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Voltage-gated potassium channels as a potential therapeutic target for the treatment of neurological and psychiatric disorders

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience
Voltage-gated potassium channels are a widely distributed subgroup of potassium channels responsible for the efflux of potassium in the repolarisation of the cell membrane, and hence contribute to the latency and propagation of action potentials. As they
Isabel E. Faulkner, Rachael Z. Pajak, Michael K. Harte, Jocelyn D. Glazier, Reinmar Hager   +4 more
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Dual Regulation of Voltage-Sensitive Ion Channels by PIP2

Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2012
Over the past 16 years, there has been an impressive number of ion channels shown to be sensitive to the major phosphoinositide in the plasma membrane, phosphatidilinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PIP2). Among them are voltage-gated channels, which are crucial
Aldo A Rodríguez Menchaca, Scott K Adney, Lei eZhou, Diomedes E Logothetis   +3 more
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Kv2.1 voltage‐gated potassium channels in developmental perspective [PDF]

Developmental Dynamics, 2019
AbstractKv2.1 voltage‐gated potassium channels consist of two types of α‐subunits: (a) electrically‐active Kcnb1 α‐subunits and (b) silent or modulatory α‐subunits plus β‐subunits that, similar to silent α‐subunits, also regulate electrically‐active subunits. Voltage‐gated potassium channels were traditionally viewed, mainly by electrophysiologists, as
Justyna Jędrychowska, Vladimir Korzh
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Predicting the functional effects of voltage-gated potassium channel missense variants with multi-task learning

EBioMedicine, 2022
Summary: Background: Variants in genes encoding voltage-gated potassium channels are associated with a broad spectrum of neurological diseases including epilepsy, ataxia, and intellectual disability.
Christian Malte Boßelmann, Ulrike B.S. Hedrich, Peter Müller, Lukas Sonnenberg, Shridhar Parthasarathy, Ingo Helbig, Holger Lerche, Nico Pfeifer   +7 more
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Analysis of a putative voltage‐gated prokaryotic potassium channel [PDF]

European Journal of Biochemistry, 2001
Most of the completely sequenced prokaryotic genomes contain genes of potassium channel homologues, but there is still not much known about the role of these proteins in prokaryotes. Here we describe the large‐scale overproduction and purification of a prokaryotic voltage‐gated potassium channel homologue, Kch, from Escherichia coli.
Ungar, D., Barth, A., Haase, W., Kaunzinger, A., Lewitzki, E., Ruiz, T., Reiländer, H., Michel, H.   +7 more
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