Gene

kcnj16a

ID

ZDB-GENE-130603-81

Name

potassium inwardly rectifying channel subfamily J member 16a

Symbol

kcnj16a Nomenclature History

Previous Names

kcnj16 (1)
Kir5.1 (1)
si:ch73-68j20.1

Type

protein_coding_gene

Location

Chr: 12 Mapping Details/Browsers

Description

Predicted to have inward rectifier potassium channel activity. Predicted to be involved in potassium ion import across plasma membrane and regulation of ion transmembrane transport. Predicted to localize to integral component of membrane. Orthologous to human KCNJ16 (potassium inwardly rectifying channel subfamily J member 16).

Genome Resources

Note

The kcnj16 gene was duplicated in teleosts but once copy was lost in zebrafish -Silic et al., 2021.

Comparative Information

Expression

All Expression Data

1 figure from Silic et al., 2021

Cross-Species Comparison

High Throughput Data

Expression Atlas

UO scRNA-seq (UCSC browser)

Single Cell Expression Atlas

Thisse Expression Data

No data available

Wild Type Expression Summary

Phenotype

All Phenotype Data: No data available
Cross-Species Comparison: Alliance

Phenotype Summary

Mutations

Mutants

Sequence Targeting Reagents

Human Disease

Associated With kcnj16a Human Ortholog

Disease Ontology Term	Multi-Species Data	OMIM Term	OMIM Phenotype ID
		Hypokalemic tubulopathy and deafness	619406

Associated With kcnj16a Via Experimental Models

No data available

Gene Ontology

Protein Domains

Domain, Family, and Site Summary

Type	InterPro ID	Name
Domain	IPR040445	Potassium channel, inwardly rectifying, transmembrane domain
Domain	IPR041647	Inward rectifier potassium channel, C-terminal
Family	IPR016449	Potassium channel, inwardly rectifying, Kir
Homologous_superfamily	IPR013518	Potassium channel, inwardly rectifying, Kir, cytoplasmic
Homologous_superfamily	IPR014756	Immunoglobulin E-set