KCNJ13 explained

Potassium inwardly-rectifying channel, subfamily J, member 13 (KCNJ13) is a human gene encoding the K_ir7.1 protein.^[1]

See also

• Inward-rectifier potassium ion channel

Further reading

• Kubo Y, Adelman JP, Clapham DE, Jan LY, Karschin A, Kurachi Y, Lazdunski M, Nichols CG, Seino S, Vandenberg CA . International Union of Pharmacology. LIV. Nomenclature and molecular relationships of inwardly rectifying potassium channels . Pharmacological Reviews . 57 . 4 . 509–26 . December 2005 . 16382105 . 10.1124/pr.57.4.11 . 11588492 .
• Krapivinsky G, Medina I, Eng L, Krapivinsky L, Yang Y, Clapham DE . A novel inward rectifier K+ channel with unique pore properties . Neuron . 20 . 5 . 995–1005 . May 1998 . 9620703 . 10.1016/S0896-6273(00)80480-8 . 16356235 . free .
• Partiseti M, Collura V, Agnel M, Culouscou JM, Graham D . Cloning and characterization of a novel human inwardly rectifying potassium channel predominantly expressed in small intestine . FEBS Letters . 434 . 1–2 . 171–6 . August 1998 . 9738472 . 10.1016/S0014-5793(98)00972-7 . 27138272 . free . 1998FEBSL.434..171P .
• Döring F, Derst C, Wischmeyer E, Karschin C, Schneggenburger R, Daut J, Karschin A . The epithelial inward rectifier channel Kir7.1 displays unusual K+ permeation properties . The Journal of Neuroscience . 18 . 21 . 8625–36 . November 1998 . 9786970 . 6793533 . 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.18-21-08625.1998.
• Derst C, Döring F, Preisig-Müller R, Daut J, Karschin A, Jeck N, Weber S, Engel H, Grzeschik KH . Partial gene structure and assignment to chromosome 2q37 of the human inwardly rectifying K+ channel (Kir7.1) gene (KCNJ13) . Genomics . 54 . 3 . 560–3 . December 1998 . 9878260 . 10.1006/geno.1998.5598 .
• Nakamura N, Suzuki Y, Sakuta H, Ookata K, Kawahara K, Hirose S . Inwardly rectifying K+ channel Kir7.1 is highly expressed in thyroid follicular cells, intestinal epithelial cells and choroid plexus epithelial cells: implication for a functional coupling with Na+,K+-ATPase . The Biochemical Journal . 342 (Pt 2) . 2 . 329–36 . September 1999 . 10455019 . 1220469 . 10.1042/0264-6021:3420329 .
• Kimura K, Wakamatsu A, Suzuki Y, Ota T, Nishikawa T, Yamashita R, Yamamoto J, Sekine M, Tsuritani K, Wakaguri H, Ishii S, Sugiyama T, Saito K, Isono Y, Irie R, Kushida N, Yoneyama T, Otsuka R, Kanda K, Yokoi T, Kondo H, Wagatsuma M, Murakawa K, Ishida S, Ishibashi T, Takahashi-Fujii A, Tanase T, Nagai K, Kikuchi H, Nakai K, Isogai T, Sugano S . Diversification of transcriptional modulation: large-scale identification and characterization of putative alternative promoters of human genes . Genome Research . 16 . 1 . 55–65 . January 2006 . 16344560 . 1356129 . 10.1101/gr.4039406 .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Entrez Gene: KCNJ13 potassium inwardly-rectifying channel, subfamily J, member 13.