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Facts about Acid-sensing ion channel 2.
Generates a biphasic current with a fast inactivating and a slow sustained phase. Heteromeric channel assembly seems to modulate.
Human | |
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Gene Name: | ASIC2 |
Uniprot: | Q16515 |
Entrez: | 40 |
Belongs to: |
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amiloride-sensitive sodium channel (TC 1.A.6) family |
Acid-sensing ion channel 2; Amiloride-sensitive brain sodium channel; amiloride-sensitive cation channel 1, neuronal; ASIC2a; ASIC2Mammalian degenerin homolog; BNAC1; BNaC1ACCN; BNC1Amiloride-sensitive cation channel neuronal 1; degenerin; hBNaC1; MDEGBrain sodium channel 1; neuronal amiloride-sensitive cation channel 1
Mass (kDA):
57.709 kDA
Human | |
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Location: | 17q11.2-q12 |
Sequence: | 17; NC_000017.11 (33013087..34156806, complement) |
Brain and spinal cord. Isoform 1 is also detected in testis, liver, colon and ovary.
Cell membrane; Multi-pass membrane protein. Localized at the plasma membrane of neurons, in the soma and punctated peripheral processes.
PMID: 8626462 by Price M.P., et al. Cloning and expression of a novel human brain Na+ channel.
PMID: 8631835 by Waldmann R., et al. The mammalian degenerin MDEG, an amiloride-sensitive cation channel activated by mutations causing neurodegeneration in Caenorhabditis elegans.