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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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Behavior of ion channels controlled by electric potential difference and of Toll-type receptors in neuropathic pain pathophysiology

Revista Dor
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Neuropathic pain is a severe and refractory medical condition, for which only partially effective treatments are currently available.
André Prato Schmidt, Sérgio Renato Guimarães Schmidt   +1 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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Kv7 and Kv11 channels in myometrial regulation.

, 2013
Ion channels play a key role in defining myometrial contractility. Modulation of ion channel populations is proposed to underpin gestational changes in uterine contractility associated with the transition from uterine quiescence to active labour.
Tribe, Rachel M; id_orcid, Greenwood, IA, Rachel M. Tribe, Greenwood, Iain, Iain A. Greenwood, Tribe, RM   +5 more
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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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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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Role of Voltage-gated Potassium Channels in Cancer

The Journal of Membrane Biology, 2005
Ion channels are being associated with a growing number of diseases including cancer. This overview summarizes data on voltage-gated potassium channels (VGKCs) that exhibit oncogenic properties: ether-à-go-go type 1 (Eag1). Normally, Eag1 is expressed almost exclusively in tissue of neural origin, but its ectopic expression leads to uncontrolled ...
Pardo, L., Contreras-Jurado, C., Zientkowska, M., Alves, F., Stühmer, W.   +4 more
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Structural and functional modularity of voltage‐gated potassium channels [PDF]

FEBS Letters, 1999
Sequence similarity among known potassium channels indicates the voltage‐gated potassium channels consist of two modules: the N‐terminal portion of the channel up to and including transmembrane segment S4, called in this paper the ‘sensor’ module, and the C‐terminal portion from transmembrane segment S5 onwards, called the ‘pore’ module.
Patten C. D., Caprini M., Planells-Cases R., Montal M.   +3 more
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Pulmonary vasoconstrictor action of KCNQ potassium channel blockers [PDF]

, 2006
KCNQ channels have been widely studied in the nervous system, heart and inner ear, where they have important physiological functions. Recent reports indicate that KCNQ channels may also be expressed in portal vein where they are suggested to influence ...
Joshi, Shreena, Gurney Alison M, Prabhu Balan, Alison M Gurney, Gurney, Alyson M.; id_orcid, Balan Prabhu, Shreena Joshi, Gurney, Alison M., Joshi Shreena, Balan, Prabhu   +9 more
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