Sodium channel protein type 4 subunit alpha
BE0002083ProteinHumansSCN4A
Pore-forming subunit of Nav1.4, a voltage-gated sodium (Nav) channel that directly mediates the depolarizing phase of action potentials in excitable membranes. It is acted on by 12 drugs in DrugBank.
- Gene name
- SCN4A
- UniProtKB entry
- P35499Swiss-Prot
- Cellular location
- Cell membrane
- Residues / weight
- 1,836 residues · 208,059 Da
- Also known as
- SkM1 · Sodium channel protein skeletal muscle subunit alpha · Sodium channel protein type IV subunit alpha · Voltage-gated sodium channel subunit alpha Nav1.4
Resolves to
Pharmacology
Drugs
What you can answer from here — as of September 07, 2019
Which approved drugs act on Sodium channel protein type 4 subunit alpha, how selective are they, and which programs against it are still in active trials?
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