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    J Biol Chem. 1998 Sep 4;273(36):23080-5.

    KCR1, a membrane protein that facilitates functional expression of non-inactivating K+ currents associates with rat EAG voltage-dependent K+ channels.

    Hoshi N, Takahashi H, Shahidullah M, Yokoyama S, Higashida H.

    Department of Biophysical Genetics, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medicine, Kanazawa 920-8640, Japan.

    Cerebellar granule neurons possess a non-inactivating K+ current, which controls resting membrane potentials and modulates the firing rate by means of muscarinic agonists. kcr1 was cloned from the cerebellar cDNA library by suppression cloning. KCR1 is a novel protein with 12 putative transmembrane domains and enhances the functional expression of the cerebellar non-inactivating K+ current in Xenopus oocytes. KCR1 also accelerates the activation of rat EAG K+ channels expressed in Xenopus oocytes or in COS-7 cells. Far-Western blotting revealed that KCR1 and EAG proteins interacted with each other by means of their C-terminal regions. These results suggest that KCR1 is the regulatory component of non-inactivating K+ channels.

    PMID: 9722534 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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