title: Cloning of a bovine voltage-gated K+ channel gene utilising partial amino acid sequence of a dendrotoxin-binding protein from brain cortex.
abstract: Several variants of fast-activating, voltage-dependent K+ channels exist in the nervous system where they control cell excitability and synaptic transmission, some of which are blocked selectively by alpha-dendrotoxin. Cloning of a K+ channel from bovine genomic DNA was achieved using a primer based on the N-terminal sequence of the larger subunit from the purified toxin acceptor, in conjunction with secondary primers, in the polymerase chain reaction. The resultant amino acid sequence is highly homologous to RCK 5 already cloned from rat brain, which yields a K+ current susceptible to alpha-dendrotoxin, when expressed in oocytes. These findings establish conclusively that the extensively characterized alpha-dendrotoxin acceptor is a K+ channel protein.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Imperial College, London, UK.
authors.forename: P F
authors.initials: PF
authors.lastname: Reid
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Pongs
authors.forename: J O
authors.initials: JO
authors.lastname: Dolly
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002417:Cattle; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000378:metabolism*; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004247:DNA; D004546:Elapid Venoms / Q000378:metabolism*; D004553:Electric Conductivity; D015640:Ion Channel Gating; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009498:Neurotoxins / Q000378:metabolism*; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D015221:Potassium Channels / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*; D011950:Receptors, Cholinergic / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
chemical_list: D004546:Elapid Venoms; D009498:Neurotoxins; D015221:Potassium Channels; D011950:Receptors, Cholinergic; C042467:dendrotoxin receptor; C020273:dendrotoxin; D004247:DNA