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Facts about Sodium channel protein type 5 subunit alpha.
It is a tetrodotoxin-resistant Na(+) channel isoform (PubMed:1309946). This channel is responsible for the initial upstroke of the action potential.
Human | |
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Gene Name: | SCN5A |
Uniprot: | Q14524 |
Entrez: | 6331 |
Belongs to: |
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sodium channel (TC 1.A.1.10) family |
cardiac sodium channel alpha subunit; cardiac tetrodotoxin-insensitive voltage-dependent sodium channel alpha subunit; CDCD2VF1; HB1sodium channel, voltage-gated, type V, alpha (long QT syndrome 3); HB2; HBBD; HH1CMD1E; ICCD; IVF; LQT3SSS1CMPD2; Nav1.5; PFHB1; Sodium channel protein cardiac muscle subunit alpha; sodium channel protein type 5 subunit alpha; sodium channel protein type V alpha subunit; Sodium channel protein type V subunit alpha; sodium channel, voltage-gated, type V, alpha subunit; Voltage-gated sodium channel subunit alpha Nav1.5
Mass (kDA):
226.94 kDA
Human | |
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Location: | 3p22.2 |
Sequence: | 3; NC_000003.12 (38548061..38649687, complement) |
Found in jejunal circular smooth muscle cells (at protein level). Expressed in human atrial and ventricular cardiac muscle but not in adult skeletal muscle, brain, myometrium, liver, or spleen. Isoform 4 is expressed in brain.
Cell membrane; Multi-pass membrane protein. Cytoplasm, perinuclear region. Cell membrane, sarcolemma, T-tubule. RANGRF promotes trafficking to the cell membrane.
PMID: 1309946 by Gellens M.E., et al. Primary structure and functional expression of the human cardiac tetrodotoxin-insensitive voltage-dependent sodium channel.
PMID: 12358675 by Ou Y., et al. SCN5A is expressed in human jejunal circular smooth muscle cells.