Nav1.2

SCN2A
Available structures
PDBHuman UniProt search: PDBe RCSB
Identifiers
AliasesSCN2A, BFIC3, BFIS3, BFNIS, EIEE11, HBA, HBSCI, HBSCII, NAC2, Na(v)1.2, Nav1.2, SCN2A1, SCN2A2, sodium voltage-gated channel alpha subunit 2
External IDsMGI: 98248 HomoloGene: 75001 GeneCards: SCN2A
Gene location (Human)
Chr.Chromosome 2 (human)[1]
BandNo data availableStart165,194,993 bp[1]
End165,392,310 bp[1]
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
SpeciesHumanMouse
Entrez

6326

110876

Ensembl

ENSG00000136531

ENSMUSG00000075318

UniProt

Q99250

n/a

RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_001040142
NM_001040143
NM_021007

NM_001099298
NM_001346679
NM_001346680

RefSeq (protein)

NP_001035232
NP_001035233
NP_066287

n/a

Location (UCSC)Chr 2: 165.19 – 165.39 MbChr 2: 65.62 – 65.77 Mb
PubMed search[3][4]
Wikidata
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Navα1.2, also known as the sodium channel, voltage-gated, type II, alpha subunit is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SCN2A gene.[5] Functional sodium channels contain an ion conductive alpha subunit and one or more regulatory beta subunits. Sodium channels which contain the Navα1.2 subunit are called Nav1.2 channels.

Function

Voltage-gated sodium channels are transmembrane glycoprotein complexes composed of a large alpha subunit with four domains including 24 transmembrane segments and one or more regulatory beta subunits. They are responsible for the generation and propagation of action potentials in neurons and muscle. This gene encodes one member of the sodium channel alpha subunit gene family. It is heterogeneously expressed in the brain, and mutations in this gene have been linked to several seizure disorders. Several alternatively spliced transcript variants of this gene have been described, but the full-length nature of some of these variants has not been determined.[5]

Clinical significance

Mutations in this gene have been implicated in cases of autism,[6] infantile spasms and bitemporal glucose hypometabolism.[7]

See also

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Further reading

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