FEATURES

FAMILY

DESCRIPTION

Also known as KCNE5_MOUSE, Kcne5, Kcne1l. Potassium channel ancillary subunit that is essential for generation of some native K(+) currents by virtue of formation of heteromeric ion channel complex with voltage-gated potassium (Kv) channel pore-forming alpha subunits. Functions as an inhibitory beta-subunit of the repolarizing cardiac potassium ion channel KCNQ1. Interacts with KCNQ1; impairs KCNQ1 localization in lipid rafts and only conducts current upon strong and continued depolarization.

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enzyme classification

Kcne5

Potassium voltage-gated channel subfamily E regulatory beta subunit 5

Kcne5

Molecular Synopsis