Publication Date:
1999-12-30
Description:
Voltage-gated proton (H+) channels are found in many human and animal tissues and play an important role in cellular defense against acidic stress. However, a molecular identification of these unique ion conductances has so far not been achieved. A 191-amino acid protein is described that, upon heterologous expression, has properties indistinguishable from those of native H+ channels. This protein is generated through alternative splicing of messenger RNA derived from the gene NOH-1 (NADPH oxidase homolog 1, where NADPH is the reduced form of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate).〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Banfi, B -- Maturana, A -- Jaconi, S -- Arnaudeau, S -- Laforge, T -- Sinha, B -- Ligeti, E -- Demaurex, N -- Krause, K H -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2000 Jan 7;287(5450):138-42.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Biology of Aging Laboratory, Department of Geriatrics, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva Medical School, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10615049" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
*Alternative Splicing
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Amino Acid Sequence
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Cell Line
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Cytosol/metabolism
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Electric Conductivity
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Electron Transport
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Expressed Sequence Tags
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Humans
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Hydrogen/*metabolism
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Hydrogen-Ion Concentration
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Ion Channel Gating
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Ion Channels/chemistry/*genetics/metabolism
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Membrane Glycoproteins/chemistry/*genetics
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Molecular Sequence Data
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NADPH Oxidase/chemistry/*genetics
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Patch-Clamp Techniques
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Protons
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Transfection
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Tumor Cells, Cultured
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Zinc/pharmacology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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