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The receptor for the bee venom derived neurotoxin, apamin, is widely believed to be an integral component of the small conductance calcium-activated potassium channel in many excitable cells. By affinity chromatography on immobilized apamin, a 78 kD apamin binding protein of the bovine brain synaptosomes was isolated. Antibodies were elicited against this protein and used to clone a cDNA from a porcine vascular smooth muscle expression library. This gene (Kcal 1.8) codes for a 438 amino protein with four potential transmembrane domains, one putative calcium binding site, a protein kinase C phosphorylation site, and a leucine zipper motif. Kcal 1.8 encoded protein has no significant sequence homologies with any known ion channels or receptors. Kcal 1.8 is likely to encode a protein associated with the small conductance calcium-activated potassium channel in vascular smooth muscle.
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Sokol, P.T., Hu, W., Yi, L. et al. Cloning of an apamin binding protein of vascular smooth muscle. J Protein Chem 13, 117–128 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01891999
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