International Union of Pharmacology. LIII. Nomenclature and Molecular Relationships of Voltage-Gated Potassium Channels

Potassium-selective channels are the largest and most diverse group of ion channels, represented by some 70 known loci in the mammalian genome. The first cloned potassium channel gene was the Drosophila voltage-gated shaker channel, and this was rapidly followed by the identification of other