KCNA6

Potassium voltage-gated channel subfamily A member 6 also known as K_v1.6 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the KCNA6 gene.^[5] The protein encoded by this gene is a voltage-gated potassium channel subunit.

KCNA6
Identifiers
Aliases	KCNA6, HBK2, KV1.6, PPP1R96, potassium voltage-gated channel subfamily A member 6
External IDs	OMIM: 176257; MGI: 96663; HomoloGene: 1684; GeneCards: KCNA6; OMA:KCNA6 - orthologs
Gene location (Human) Chr. Chromosome 12 (human)[1] Band 12p13.32 Start 4,809,334 bp[1] End 4,813,318 bp[1]
Gene location (Mouse) Chr. Chromosome 6 (mouse)[2] Band 6 F3|6 61.72 cM Start 126,685,292 bp[2] End 126,717,637 bp[2]
RNA expression pattern Bgee Human Mouse (ortholog) Top expressed in testicle prefrontal cortex islet of Langerhans ventricular zone Brodmann area 9 Achilles tendon cingulate gyrus right frontal lobe anterior cingulate cortex ganglionic eminence Top expressed in dentate gyrus of hippocampal formation granule cell lumbar spinal ganglion medial dorsal nucleus superior frontal gyrus lateral hypothalamus globus pallidus primary visual cortex medial vestibular nucleus trigeminal ganglion cerebellar cortex More reference expression data BioGPS n/a
Gene ontology Molecular function voltage-gated potassium channel activity ion channel activity potassium channel activity delayed rectifier potassium channel activity voltage-gated ion channel activity Cellular component axon terminus integral component of membrane voltage-gated potassium channel complex axon plasma membrane potassium channel complex integral component of plasma membrane membrane Biological process potassium ion transport regulation of ion transmembrane transport protein homooligomerization ion transport transmembrane transport potassium ion transmembrane transport Sources:Amigo / QuickGO
Orthologs Species Human Mouse Entrez 3742 16494 Ensembl ENSG00000151079 ENSMUSG00000038077 UniProt P17658 Q61923 RefSeq (mRNA) NM_002235 NM_013568 RefSeq (protein) NP_002226 NP_038596 Location (UCSC) Chr 12: 4.81 – 4.81 Mb Chr 6: 126.69 – 126.72 Mb PubMed search [3] [4]
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