Ether‐à‐go‐go potassium channel
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An ether‐à‐go‐go potassium channel is a potassium channel which is inwardly-rectifying and voltage-gated.
They are named after the ether‐à‐go‐go gene, which codes for one such channel in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster.[1]
Examples include hERG, KCNH6, and KCNH7.
References
[edit]- ^ Bauer, Christiane K.; Schwarz, Jürgen R. (March 2018). "Ether-à-go-go K+ channels: effective modulators of neuronal excitability". The Journal of Physiology. 596 (5): 769–783. doi:10.1113/JP275477. PMC 5830433. PMID 29333676.
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