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Potassium channel openers require ATP to bind to and act through sulfonylurea receptors.
The EMBO journal - 1 Oct 1998
Schwanstecher M, Sieverding C, Dörschner H, Gross I, Aguilar-Bryan L, Schwanstecher C, Bryan J
Abstract excerpt
KATP channels are composed of a small inwardly rectifying K+ channel subunit, either KIR6.1 or KIR6.2, plus a sulfonylurea receptor, SUR1 or SUR2 (A or B), which belong to the ATP-binding cassette superfamily. SUR1/KIR6.2 reconstitute the neuronal/pancreatic beta-cell channel, whereas SUR2A/KIR6.2 and SUR2B/KIR6.1 (or KIR6.2) are proposed to reconstitute the cardiac and the vascular-smooth-muscle-type KATP...
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