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Facts about ATP-sensitive inward rectifier potassium channel 14.
The inward rectification is mainly due to the blockage of outward current by internal magnesium. KCNJ14 gives rise to low-conductance channels with a low affinity to the channel blockers Barium and Cesium (By similarity).
Human | |
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Gene Name: | KCNJ14 |
Uniprot: | Q9UNX9 |
Entrez: | 3770 |
Belongs to: |
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inward rectifier-type potassium channel (TC 1.A.2.1) family |
ATP-sensitive inward rectifier potassium channel 14
Mass (kDA):
47.846 kDA
Human | |
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Location: | 19q13.33 |
Sequence: | 19; NC_000019.10 (48455574..48466980) |
Expressed preferentially in retina.
Membrane; Multi-pass membrane protein.
PMID: 10942728 by Hughes B.A., et al. Cloning and functional expression of human retinal Kir2.4, a pH- sensitive inwardly rectifying K+ channel.
PMID: 10723734 by Toepert C., et al. Cloning, structure and assignment to chromosome 19q13 of the human Kir2.4 inwardly rectifying potassium channel gene (KCNJ14).