KCNJ13

Potassium inwardly-rectifying channel, subfamily J, member 13
Identifiers
Symbols	KCNJ13; KIR1.4; KIR7.1; LCA16; SVD
External IDs	OMIM: 603208 HomoloGene: 55638 IUPHAR: Kir7.1 GeneCards: KCNJ13 Gene
Gene Ontology Molecular function • inward rectifier potassium channel activity • voltage-gated ion channel activity Cellular component • voltage-gated potassium channel complex • membrane • integral to membrane Biological process • ion transport • potassium ion transport Sources: Amigo / QuickGO
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species	Human	Mouse
Entrez	3769	100040591
Ensembl	ENSG00000115474	ENSMUSG00000079436
UniProt	O60928	P86046
RefSeq (mRNA)	NM_001172416.1	NM_001110227.1
RefSeq (protein)	NP_001165887.1	NP_001103697.1
Location (UCSC)	Chr 2: 233.63 – 233.64 Mb	Chr 1: 89.28 – 89.29 Mb
PubMed search	[1]	[2]

Potassium inwardly-rectifying channel, subfamily J, member 13 (KCNJ13) is a human gene encoding the K_ir7.1 protein.

See also

• Inward-rectifier potassium ion channel

Further reading

• Kubo Y, Adelman JP, Clapham DE et al (2006). "International Union of Pharmacology. LIV. Nomenclature and molecular relationships of inwardly rectifying potassium channels". Pharmacol. Rev. 57 (4): 509–526. doi:10.1124/pr.57.4.11. PMID 16382105. 
• Krapivinsky G, Medina I, Eng L et al (1998). "A novel inward rectifier K+ channel with unique pore properties". Neuron 20 (5): 995–1005. doi:10.1016/S0896-6273(00)80480-8. PMID 9620703. 
• Partiseti M, Collura V, Agnel M et al (1998). "Cloning and characterization of a novel human inwardly rectifying potassium channel predominantly expressed in small intestine". FEBS Lett. 434 (1–2): 171–176. doi:10.1016/S0014-5793(98)00972-7. PMID 9738472. 
• Döring F, Derst C, Wischmeyer E et al (1998). "The epithelial inward rectifier channel Kir7.1 displays unusual K+ permeation properties". J. Neurosci. 18 (21): 8625–36. PMID 9786970. 
• Derst C, Döring F, Preisig-Müller R et al (1999). "Partial gene structure and assignment to chromosome 2q37 of the human inwardly rectifying K+ channel (Kir7.1) gene (KCNJ13)". Genomics 54 (3): 560–563. doi:10.1006/geno.1998.5598. PMID 9878260. 
• Nakamura N, Suzuki Y, Sakuta H et al (1999). "Inwardly rectifying K+ channel Kir7.1 is highly expressed in thyroid follicular cells, intestinal epithelial cells and choroid plexus epithelial cells: implication for a functional coupling with Na+,K+-ATPase". Biochem. J. 342 (2): 329–36. PMC 1220469. PMID 10455019. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=1220469. 
• Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH et al (2003). "Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899–16903. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMC 139241. PMID 12477932. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=139241. 
• Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA et al (2004). "The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC)". Genome Res. 14 (10B): 2121–2127. doi:10.1101/gr.2596504. PMC 528928. PMID 15489334. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=528928. 
• Kimura K, Wakamatsu A, Suzuki Y et al (2006). "Diversification of transcriptional modulation: large-scale identification and characterization of putative alternative promoters of human genes". Genome Res. 16 (1): 55–65. doi:10.1101/gr.4039406. PMC 1356129. PMID 16344560. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=1356129. 

External links

• MeSH KCNJ13+protein,+human

This article incorporates text from the United States National Library of Medicine, which is in the public domain.