KCNA6

KCNA6
Identifiers
Aliases	KCNA6, HBK2, KV1.6, PPP1R96, potassium voltage-gated channel subfamily A member 6
External IDs	OMIM: 176257; MGI: 96663; HomoloGene: 1684; GeneCards: KCNA6; OMA:KCNA6 - orthologs
Gene location (Human)
Chr.	Chromosome 12 (human)
End	4,813,318 bp
Gene location (Mouse)
Chr.	Chromosome 6 (mouse)
End	126,717,637 bp
RNA expression pattern
	Top expressed in
	testicle; ; prefrontal cortex; ; islet of Langerhans; ; ventricular zone; ; Brodmann area 9; ; Achilles tendon; ; cingulate gyrus; ; right frontal lobe; ; anterior cingulate cortex; ; ganglionic eminence;
	Top expressed in
	dentate gyrus of hippocampal formation granule cell; ; lumbar spinal ganglion; ; medial dorsal nucleus; ; superior frontal gyrus; ; lateral hypothalamus; ; globus pallidus; ; primary visual cortex; ; medial vestibular nucleus; ; trigeminal ganglion; ; cerebellar cortex;
	More reference expression data
	n/a
Gene ontology
Molecular function	voltage-gated potassium channel activity; ion channel activity; potassium channel activity; delayed rectifier potassium channel activity; voltage-gated ion channel activity;
Cellular component	axon terminus; integral component of membrane; voltage-gated potassium channel complex; axon; plasma membrane; potassium channel complex; integral component of plasma membrane; membrane;
Biological process	potassium ion transport; regulation of ion transmembrane transport; protein homooligomerization; ion transport; transmembrane transport; potassium ion transmembrane transport;
	Sources:Amigo / QuickGO
Orthologs
	3742
	16494
	ENSG00000151079
	ENSMUSG00000038077
	P17658
	Q61923
	NM_002235
	NM_013568
	NP_002226
	NP_038596
	Wikidata
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Potassium voltage-gated channel subfamily A member 6 also known as K_v1.6 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the KCNA6 gene.^[5] The protein encoded by this gene is a voltage-gated potassium channel subunit.