Sodium channel protein type 9 subunit alpha
BE0001143ProteinHumansSCN9A
Pore-forming subunit of Nav1.7, a voltage-gated sodium (Nav) channel that directly mediates the depolarizing phase of action potentials in excitable membranes (PubMed:38381792, PubMed:40768348). It is acted on by 15 drugs in DrugBank.
- Gene name
- SCN9A
- UniProtKB entry
- Q15858Swiss-Prot
- Cellular location
- Cell membrane
- Residues / weight
- 1,988 residues · 226,370 Da
- Also known as
- hNE-Na · NENA · Neuroendocrine sodium channel · Peripheral sodium channel 1 · PN1
Resolves to
Pharmacology
Drugs
What you can answer from here — as of September 07, 2019
Which approved drugs act on Sodium channel protein type 9 subunit alpha, how selective are they, and which programs against it are still in active trials?
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