This gene encodes a member of the family of voltage-gated potassium (Kv) channel-interacting proteins (KCNIPs, also frequently called "KChIP"), which belong to the recoverin branch of the EF-hand superfamily.[3] Members of the KCNIP family are small calcium binding proteins. They all have EF-hand-like domains, and differ from each other in the N-terminus. They are integral subunit components of native Kv4 channel complexes. They may regulate A-type currents, and hence neuronal excitability, in response to changes in intracellular calcium. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variant encoding different isoforms.[2]
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Deschênes I, DiSilvestre D, Juang GJ, Wu RC, An WF, Tomaselli GF (Jul 2002). "Regulation of Kv4.3 current by KChIP2 splice variants: a component of native cardiac I(to)?". Circulation. 106 (4): 423–9. doi:10.1161/01.CIR.0000025417.65658.B6. PMID12135940.
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Ren X, Shand SH, Takimoto K (Oct 2003). "Effective association of Kv channel-interacting proteins with Kv4 channel is mediated with their unique core peptide". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 278 (44): 43564–70. doi:10.1074/jbc.M302337200. PMID12928444.
Kim LA, Furst J, Butler MH, Xu S, Grigorieff N, Goldstein SA (Feb 2004). "Ito channels are octomeric complexes with four subunits of each Kv4.2 and K+ channel-interacting protein 2". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 279 (7): 5549–54. doi:10.1074/jbc.M311332200. PMID14623880.
Kim LA, Furst J, Gutierrez D, Butler MH, Xu S, Goldstein SA, Grigorieff N (Feb 2004). "Three-dimensional structure of I(to); Kv4.2-KChIP2 ion channels by electron microscopy at 21 Angstrom resolution". Neuron. 41 (4): 513–9. doi:10.1016/S0896-6273(04)00050-9. PMID14980201.
Lin YL, Lin SR, Wu TT, Chang LS (Jul 2004). "Evidence showing an intermolecular interaction between KChIP proteins and Taiwan cobra cardiotoxins". Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 319 (3): 720–4. doi:10.1016/j.bbrc.2004.05.064. PMID15184042.
Rhodes KJ, Carroll KI, Sung MA, Doliveira LC, Monaghan MM, Burke SL, Strassle BW, Buchwalder L, Menegola M, Cao J, An WF, Trimmer JS (Sep 2004). "KChIPs and Kv4 alpha subunits as integral components of A-type potassium channels in mammalian brain". The Journal of Neuroscience. 24 (36): 7903–15. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0776-04.2004. PMID15356203.
Lin YL, Chen CY, Cheng CP, Chang LS (Aug 2004). "Protein-protein interactions of KChIP proteins and Kv4.2". Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 321 (3): 606–10. doi:10.1016/j.bbrc.2004.07.006. PMID15358149.