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Facts about Potassium voltage-gated channel subfamily V member 2.
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Human | |
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Gene Name: | KCNV2 |
Uniprot: | Q8TDN2 |
Entrez: | 169522 |
Belongs to: |
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potassium channel family |
KV11.1; Kv8.2; MGC120515; potassium channel, subfamily V, member 2; potassium voltage-gated channel subfamily V member 2; RCD3B; voltage-gated potassium channel Kv8.2; Voltage-gated potassium channel subunit Kv8.2
Mass (kDA):
62.459 kDA
Human | |
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Location: | 9p24.2 |
Sequence: | 9; NC_000009.12 (2717510..2730037) |
Detected in lung, liver, kidney, pancreas, spleen, thymus, prostate, testis, ovary and colon.
Cell membrane; Multi-pass membrane protein. Has to be associated with KCNB1 or possibly another partner to get inserted in the plasma membrane. Remains intracellular in the absence of KCNB1.
PMID: 12060745 by Ottschytsch N., et al. Obligatory heterotetramerization of three previously uncharacterized Kv channel alpha-subunits identified in the human genome.
PMID: 16909397 by Wu H., et al. Mutations in the gene KCNV2 encoding a voltage-gated potassium channel subunit cause 'cone dystrophy with supernormal rod electroretinogram' in humans.