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Sabrina Gazzarrini1, Maria Severino, Mara Lombardi, Marzia Morandi, Dario DiFrancesco, James L Van Etten, Gerhard Thiel, Anna Moroni.
Abstract
The chlorella virus PBCV-1 was the first virus found to encode a functional potassium channel protein (Kcv). Kcv is small (94 aa) and basically consists of the M1-P-M2 (membrane-pore-membrane) module typical of the pore regions of all known potassium channels. Kcv forms functional channels in three heterologous systems. This brief review discusses the gating, permeability and modulation properties of Kcv and compares them to the properties of bacterial and mammalian K+ channels.Entities:
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Year: 2003 PMID: 12972145 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(03)00777-4
Source DB: PubMed Journal: FEBS Lett ISSN: 0014-5793 Impact factor: 4.124