SCN2A2

SCN2A

SCN2A

Protein-coding gene in the species Homo sapiens


Sodium channel protein type 2 subunit alpha, is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SCN2A gene.[5] Functional sodium channels contain an ion conductive alpha subunit and one or more regulatory beta subunits. Sodium channels which contain sodium channel protein type 2 subunit alpha are sometimes called Nav1.2 channels.

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Function

Voltage-gated sodium channels are transmembrane glycoprotein complexes composed of a large alpha subunit with four domains including 24 transmembrane segments and one or more regulatory beta subunits. They are responsible for the generation and propagation of action potentials in neurons and muscle. This gene encodes one member of the sodium channel alpha subunit gene family. It is heterogeneously expressed in the brain, and mutations in this gene have been linked to several seizure disorders. Several alternatively spliced transcript variants of this gene have been described, but the full-length nature of some of these variants has not been determined.[5]

Clinical significance

Mutations in this gene have been implicated in cases of autism,[6] infantile spasms, bitemporal glucose hypometabolism,[7] and bipolar disorder.[8]

See also


References

  1. "Human PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  2. "Mouse PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  3. Sanders SJ SJ, Murtha MT, Gupta AR, Murdoch JR, Raubeson MJ, Willsey AJ, Ercan-Sencicek AG, et al. (2012). "De novo mutations revealed by whole-exome sequencing are strongly associated with autism". Nature. 485 (7397): 237–241. Bibcode:2012Natur.485..237S. doi:10.1038/nature10945. PMC 3667984. PMID 22495306.
  4. Bipolar Disorder Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium, et al. (2019). "Genome-wide association study identifies 30 loci associated with bipolar disorder". Nature Genetics. 51 (5): 793–803. doi:10.1038/s41588-019-0397-8. hdl:10481/58017. PMC 6956732. PMID 31043756.

Further reading

Patient Organizations

The SCN2A Foundation

SCN2A Asia Pacific

SCN2A Germany e. V.

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