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TPCN2

Protein-coding gene in the species Homo sapiens

Protein-coding gene in the species Homo sapiens

Two pore segment channel 2 (TPC2) is a protein which in humans is encoded by the TPCN2 gene. TPC2 is an ion channel, however, in contrast to other calcium and sodium channels which have four homologous domains, each containing 6 transmembrane segments (S1 to S6), TPCN1 only contains two domain (each containing segments S1 to S6).

Structure

TPC2 is homologous to TPC1, the best characterized member of the TPC family. The structure of a TPC1 ortholog from Arabidopsis thaliana has been solved by two laboratories. The structures were solved using X-ray crystallography and contained the fold of a voltage-gated ion channel and EF hands.

Filoviral infections

Genetic knockout and pharmacological inhibition experiments demonstrate that the two-pore channels, TPC1 and TPC2, are required for infection by Filoviruses Ebola and Marburg in mice.

References

References

  1. "Entrez Gene: two pore segment channel 2".
  2. (December 2005). "International Union of Pharmacology. L. Nomenclature and structure-function relationships of CatSper and two-pore channels". Pharmacological Reviews.
  3. (March 2016). "Structure of the voltage-gated two-pore channel TPC1 from Arabidopsis thaliana". Nature.
  4. (March 2016). "Structure, inhibition and regulation of two-pore channel TPC1 from Arabidopsis thaliana". Nature.
  5. (February 2015). "Ebola virus. Two-pore channels control Ebola virus host cell entry and are drug targets for disease treatment". Science.
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