Voltage-gated potassium (Kv) channels represent the most complex class of voltage-gated ion channels from both functional and structural standpoints. Their diverse functions include regulating neurotransmitter release, heart rate, insulin secretion, neuronal excitability, epithelial electrolyte transport, smooth muscle contraction, and cell volume. Four sequence-related potassium channel genes – shaker, shaw, shab, and shal – have been identified in Drosophila, and each has been shown to have human homolog(s).
Kv4.3 is a member of the potassium channel, voltage-gated, shal-related subfamily, members of which form voltage-activated A-type potassium ion channels and are prominent in the repolarization phase of the action potential. This member includes two isoforms with different sizes, which are encoded by alternatively spliced transcript variants of this gene.[7]
Clinical significance
Gain of function is believed to cause Brugada syndrome although only indirectly shown by mutations in the beta subunit KCNE3 which causes gain of function of Kv4.3.
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Further reading
Serôdio P, Vega-Saenz de Miera E, Rudy B (1997). "Cloning of a novel component of A-type K+ channels operating at subthreshold potentials with unique expression in heart and brain". J. Neurophysiol. 75 (5): 2174–9. doi:10.1152/jn.1996.75.5.2174. PMID8734615.
Kong W, Po S, Yamagishi T, et al. (1999). "Isolation and characterization of the human gene encoding Ito: further diversity by alternative mRNA splicing". Am. J. Physiol. 275 (6 Pt 2): H1963–70. doi:10.1152/ajpheart.1998.275.6.H1963. PMID9843794.
Frank-Hansen R, Larsen LA, Andersen P, et al. (2005). "Mutations in the genes KCND2 and KCND3 encoding the ion channels Kv4.2 and Kv4.3, conducting the cardiac fast transient outward current (ITO,f), are not a frequent cause of long QT syndrome". Clin. Chim. Acta. 351 (1–2): 95–100. doi:10.1016/j.cccn.2004.08.017. PMID15563876.
Baltaev R, Strutz-Seebohm N, Korniychuk G, et al. (2005). "Regulation of cardiac shal-related potassium channel Kv 4.3 by serum- and glucocorticoid-inducible kinase isoforms in Xenopus oocytes". Pflügers Arch. 450 (1): 26–33. doi:10.1007/s00424-004-1369-z. PMID15578212. S2CID190895.
Lundby A, Olesen SP (2006). "KCNE3 is an inhibitory subunit of the Kv4.3 potassium channel". Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 346 (3): 958–67. doi:10.1016/j.bbrc.2006.06.004. PMID16782062.
Ahmed I, Cosen-Binker LI, Leung YM, et al. (2007). "Modulation of the K(v)4.3 channel by syntaxin 1A". Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 358 (3): 789–95. doi:10.1016/j.bbrc.2007.04.182. PMID17506992.
Overview of all the structural information available in the PDB for UniProt: Q9UK17 (Potassium voltage-gated channel subfamily D member 3) at the PDBe-KB.