Potassium inwardly-rectifying channel, subfamily J, member 4, also known as KCNJ4 or Kir2.3, is a human gene.[5]
Function
Several different potassium channels are known to be involved with electrical signaling in the nervous system. One class is activated by depolarization whereas a second class is not. The latter are referred to as inwardly rectifying K+ channels, and they have a greater tendency to allow potassium to flow into the cell rather than out of it. This asymmetry in potassium ion conductance plays a key role in the excitability of muscle cells and neurons. The protein encoded by this gene is an integral membrane protein and member of the inward rectifier potassium channel family. The encoded protein has a small unitary conductance compared to other members of this protein family. Two transcript variants encoding the same protein have been found for this gene.[5]
^Inanobe A, Fujita A, Ito M, Tomoike H, Inageda K, Kurachi Y (June 2002). "Inward rectifier K+ channel Kir2.3 is localized at the postsynaptic membrane of excitatory synapses". Am. J. Physiol., Cell Physiol. 282 (6): C1396–403. doi:10.1152/ajpcell.00615.2001. PMID11997254.
^Olsen O, Liu H, Wade JB, Merot J, Welling PA (January 2002). "Basolateral membrane expression of the Kir 2.3 channel is coordinated by PDZ interaction with Lin-7/CASK complex". Am. J. Physiol., Cell Physiol. 282 (1): C183–95. doi:10.1152/ajpcell.00249.2001. PMID11742811.
Further reading
Kubo Y, Adelman JP, Clapham DE, Jan LY, Karschin A, Kurachi Y, Lazdunski M, Nichols CG, Seino S, Vandenberg CA (2006). "International Union of Pharmacology. LIV. Nomenclature and molecular relationships of inwardly rectifying potassium channels". Pharmacol. Rev. 57 (4): 509–26. doi:10.1124/pr.57.4.11. PMID16382105. S2CID11588492.
Budarf ML, Périer F, Barnoski BL, Bell CJ, Vandenberg CA (1995). "Assignment of the human hippocampal inward rectifier potassium channel (HIR) gene to 22q13.1". Genomics. 26 (3): 625–9. doi:10.1016/0888-7543(95)80189-S. PMID7607694.
Olsen O, Liu H, Wade JB, Merot J, Welling PA (2002). "Basolateral membrane expression of the Kir 2.3 channel is coordinated by PDZ interaction with Lin-7/CASK complex". Am. J. Physiol., Cell Physiol. 282 (1): C183–95. doi:10.1152/ajpcell.00249.2001. PMID11742811.
Inanobe A, Fujita A, Ito M, Tomoike H, Inageda K, Kurachi Y (2002). "Inward rectifier K+ channel Kir2.3 is localized at the postsynaptic membrane of excitatory synapses". Am. J. Physiol., Cell Physiol. 282 (6): C1396–403. doi:10.1152/ajpcell.00615.2001. PMID11997254.