KCNB2
Identifiers
Aliases	KCNB2, KV2.2, potassium voltage-gated channel subfamily B member 2
External IDs	OMIM: 607738 MGI: 99632 HomoloGene: 31263 GeneCards: KCNB2
Gene location (Human) Chr. Chromosome 8 (human)[1] Band 8q21.11 Start 72,537,225 bp[1] End 72,938,349 bp[1]
Gene location (Mouse) Chr. Chromosome 1 (mouse)[2] Band 1 A3|1 4.5 cM Start 15,357,478 bp[2] End 15,793,974 bp[2]
RNA expression pattern Bgee Human Mouse (ortholog) Top expressed in islet of Langerhans ganglionic eminence prefrontal cortex Brodmann area 23 dorsolateral prefrontal cortex Brodmann area 9 entorhinal cortex middle temporal gyrus superior frontal gyrus Brodmann area 46 Top expressed in olfactory bulb ganglionic eminence neural tube mesencephalon hippocampus proper secondary oocyte spinal ganglia hypothalamus rhombencephalon superior frontal gyrus More reference expression data BioGPS n/a
Gene ontology Molecular function potassium channel activity delayed rectifier potassium channel activity voltage-gated ion channel activity ion channel activity protein heterodimerization activity voltage-gated potassium channel activity Cellular component perikaryon cell projection membrane voltage-gated potassium channel complex plasma membrane neuronal cell body membrane dendrite integral component of membrane neuronal cell body Biological process regulation of smooth muscle contraction regulation of ion transmembrane transport ion transport potassium ion transport transmembrane transport protein homooligomerization potassium ion transmembrane transport protein localization to plasma membrane Sources:Amigo / QuickGO
Orthologs Species Human Mouse Entrez 9312 98741 Ensembl ENSG00000182674 ENSMUSG00000092083 UniProt Q92953 A6H8H5 RefSeq (mRNA) NM_004770 NM_001033195 NM_001098528 RefSeq (protein) NP_004761 NP_001091998 Location (UCSC) Chr 8: 72.54 – 72.94 Mb Chr 1: 15.36 – 15.79 Mb PubMed search [3] [4]
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Potassium voltage-gated channel subfamily B member 2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the KCNB2 gene.^[5][6] The protein encoded by this gene is a voltage-gated potassium channel subunit.^[5][6]