TRPN

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TRPN is a member of the transient receptor potential channel family of ion channels, which is a diverse group of proteins thought to be involved in mechanoreception.[1] The TRPN gene was given the name no mechanoreceptor potential C (nompC) when it was first discovered in fruit flies,[2] hence the N in TRPN. Since its discovery in fruit flies, TRPN homologs have been discovered and characterized in worms,[3] frogs,[4] and zebrafish.[5]

A structure of NOMPC was published in 2017, solved using electron cryo-microscopy.[6] X-ray crystallography studies of channel segments cloned from fruit flies and zebrafish have led to the hypothesis that multiple ankyrin repeats at TRPN's N-terminus are involved in the gating of the channel pore.[7] Crystallography studies of TRPY1, a yeast TRP homolog,[8] have shown that aromatic residues conserved across TRP family members, including TRPN, in the sixth transmembrane domain are critical to the gating mechanism as well.[7]

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