Structural highlights
Disease
[KCNK3_HUMAN] Heritable pulmonary arterial hypertension. The disease is caused by mutations affecting the gene represented in this entry.
Function
[KCNK3_HUMAN] pH-dependent, voltage-insensitive, background potassium channel protein. Rectification direction results from potassium ion concentration on either side of the membrane. Acts as an outward rectifier when external potassium concentration is low. When external potassium concentration is high, current is inward.[1] [2]
References
- ↑ Plant LD, Zuniga L, Araki D, Marks JD, Goldstein SA. SUMOylation silences heterodimeric TASK potassium channels containing K2P1 subunits in cerebellar granule neurons. Sci Signal. 2012 Nov 20;5(251):ra84. doi: 10.1126/scisignal.2003431. PMID:23169818 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/scisignal.2003431
- ↑ Duprat F, Lesage F, Fink M, Reyes R, Heurteaux C, Lazdunski M. TASK, a human background K+ channel to sense external pH variations near physiological pH. EMBO J. 1997 Sep 1;16(17):5464-71. doi: 10.1093/emboj/16.17.5464. PMID:9312005 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/emboj/16.17.5464