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Zebrafish and mouse TASK-2 K(+) channels are inhibited by increased CO2 and intracellular acidification.
Pflugers Archiv : European journal of physiology - 1 Jul 2014
Peña-Münzenmayer Gaspar, Niemeyer María Isabel, Sepúlveda Francisco V, Cid L Pablo
Abstract excerpt
TASK-2 is a K2P K(+) channel considered as a candidate to mediate CO2 sensing in central chemosensory neurons in mouse. Neuroepithelial cells in zebrafish gills sense CO2 levels through an unidentified K2P K(+) channel. We have now obtained zfTASK-2 from zebrafish gill tissue that is 49 % identical to mTASK-2. Like its mouse equivalent, it is gated both by extra- and intracellular pH being activated by...
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