"KCNQ2 Potassium Channel" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A very slow opening and closing voltage-gated potassium channel that is expressed in NEURONS and is commonly mutated in BENIGN FAMILIAL NEONATAL CONVULSIONS.
| Descriptor ID |
D051658
|
| MeSH Number(s) |
D12.776.157.530.400.600.900.124.249.750 D12.776.543.550.450.750.900.124.249.750 D12.776.543.585.400.750.900.124.249.750
|
| Concept/Terms |
KCNQ2 Potassium Channel- KCNQ2 Potassium Channel
- Potassium Channel, KCNQ2
- Kv7.2 Potassium Channel
- Potassium Channel, Kv7.2
- Voltage-Gated K+ Channel KCNQ2
- Voltage Gated K+ Channel KCNQ2
- KCNQ2 Protein
|
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "KCNQ2 Potassium Channel".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "KCNQ2 Potassium Channel".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "KCNQ2 Potassium Channel" by people in this website by year, and whether "KCNQ2 Potassium Channel" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
To see the data from this visualization as text,
click here.
| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
|---|
| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
To return to the timeline,
click here.
Below are the most recent publications written about "KCNQ2 Potassium Channel" by people in Profiles.
-
Scott RC, Holmes GL. Before epilepsy unfolds: opening up the potassium door in neonatal seizures. Nat Med. 2012 Nov; 18(11):1624-5.
-
Shahidullah M, Santarelli LC, Wen H, Levitan IB. Expression of a calmodulin-binding KCNQ2 potassium channel fragment modulates neuronal M-current and membrane excitability. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 Nov 08; 102(45):16454-9.
-
Wen H, Levitan IB. Calmodulin is an auxiliary subunit of KCNQ2/3 potassium channels. J Neurosci. 2002 Sep 15; 22(18):7991-8001.