KCNH6

Potassium voltage-gated channel subfamily H member 6 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the KCNH6 gene. The protein encoded by this gene is a voltage-gated potassium channel subunit.

KCNH6
Identifiers
Aliases	KCNH6, ERG-2, ERG2, HERG2, Kv11.2, hERG-2, potassium voltage-gated channel subfamily H member 6
External IDs	OMIM: 608168; MGI: 2684139; HomoloGene: 32740; GeneCards: KCNH6; OMA:KCNH6 - orthologs
Gene location (Human) Chr. Chromosome 17 (human) Band 17q23.3 Start 63,523,334 bp End 63,548,977 bp
Gene location (Mouse) Chr. Chromosome 11 (mouse) Band 11|11 E1 Start 106,008,124 bp End 106,034,549 bp
RNA expression pattern Bgee Human Mouse (ortholog) Top expressed in buccal mucosa cell gonad human kidney testicle anterior pituitary islet of Langerhans jejunal mucosa prostate duodenum renal medulla Top expressed in islet of Langerhans layer of retina neural layer of retina optic nerve molecular layer of cerebellar cortex epiblast granular layer embryo Purkinje cell inferior colliculi More reference expression data BioGPS n/a
Gene ontology Molecular function voltage-gated potassium channel activity ion channel activity potassium channel activity voltage-gated ion channel activity Cellular component integral component of membrane plasma membrane membrane integral component of plasma membrane Biological process regulation of membrane potential potassium ion transport regulation of ion transmembrane transport ion transport transmembrane transport potassium ion transmembrane transport regulation of heart rate by cardiac conduction Sources:Amigo / QuickGO
Orthologs Species Human Mouse Entrez 81033 192775 Ensembl ENSG00000173826 ENSMUSG00000001901 UniProt Q9H252 n/a RefSeq (mRNA) NM_001278919 NM_001278920 NM_030779 NM_173092 NM_001037712 RefSeq (protein) NP_001265848 NP_001265849 NP_110406 NP_775115 n/a Location (UCSC) Chr 17: 63.52 – 63.55 Mb Chr 11: 106.01 – 106.03 Mb PubMed search
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Further reading

• Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, et al. (2002). "Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899–903. Bibcode:2002PNAS...9916899M. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMC 139241. PMID 12477932.
• Ganetzky B, Robertson GA, Wilson GF, et al. (1999). "The eag family of K+ channels in Drosophila and mammals". Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 868 (1): 356–69. Bibcode:1999NYASA.868..356G. doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.1999.tb11297.x. PMID 10414305. S2CID 33512855.
• Bauer CK, Wulfsen I, Schäfer R, et al. (2003). "HERG K(+) currents in human prolactin-secreting adenoma cells". Pflügers Arch. 445 (5): 589–600. doi:10.1007/s00424-002-0980-0. PMID 12634931. S2CID 20178757.
• Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA, et al. (2004). "The Status, Quality, and Expansion of the NIH Full-Length cDNA Project: The Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC)". Genome Res. 14 (10B): 2121–7. doi:10.1101/gr.2596504. PMC 528928. PMID 15489334.
• Ota T, Suzuki Y, Nishikawa T, et al. (2004). "Complete sequencing and characterization of 21,243 full-length human cDNAs". Nat. Genet. 36 (1): 40–5. doi:10.1038/ng1285. PMID 14702039.

External links

• Kv11.2+Potassium+Channel at the U.S. National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
• KCNH6+protein,+human at the U.S. National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)