NALCN Ion Channels Have Alternative Selectivity Filters Resembling Calcium Channels or Sodium Channels
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NALCN Ion Channels Have Alternative Selectivity Filters Resembling Calcium Channels or Sodium Channels
NALCN is a member of the family of ion channels with four homologous, repeat domains that include voltage-gated calcium and sodium channels. NALCN is a highly conserved gene from simple, extant multicellular organisms without nervous systems such as sponges and placozoans and mostly remains a single gene compared to the calcium and sodium channels which diversified into twenty genes in humans. ...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS ONE
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055088