SCN7A

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Sodium channel, voltage-gated, type VII, alpha subunit
Identifiers
SymbolsSCN7A; NaG; Nav2.1; Nav2.2; SCN6A
External IDsOMIM: 182392 MGI: 102965 HomoloGene: 55706 ChEMBL: 3585 GeneCards: SCN7A Gene
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Orthologs
SpeciesHumanMouse
Entrez633220272
EnsemblENSG00000136546ENSMUSG00000034810
UniProtQ01118B1AYL1
RefSeq (mRNA)NM_002976NM_009135
RefSeq (protein)NP_002967NP_033161
Location (UCSC)Chr 2:
167.26 – 167.35 Mb
Chr 2:
66.67 – 66.78 Mb
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Sodium channel protein type 7 subunit alpha is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SCN7A gene on the chromosome specifically located at 2q21-23 chromosome site.[1][2] This is on of 10 Sodium channel types, and is expressed in the heart, the uterus and in glial cells. Its sequence identity is 48, and it is the only sodium channel known to be completely un-blockable by TTX (tetrodotoxin)

See also

Scn7a is the name of the gene that encodes to a membrane protein, in particular a Sodium Channel Nax (also known as NaG, Nav2.1, etc.) It belongs to a family of Sodium Channel known as Voltage-Gated, but is not activated by changes in the membrane's voltage, as happen usually in the members of this family (Nav1.1 to Nav1.9); it activates by changes in the extracellular concentration of sodium [~150 mM].

References

  1. Plummer NW, Meisler MH (May 1999). "Evolution and diversity of mammalian sodium channel genes". Genomics 57 (2): 323–31. doi:10.1006/geno.1998.5735. PMID 10198179. 
  2. "Entrez Gene: SCN7A sodium channel, voltage-gated, type VII, alpha". 

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