Oxygen sensing by ion channels

Kemp, Paul J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2773-973X and Peers, Chris 2007. Oxygen sensing by ion channels. Essays in Biochemistry 43 , pp. 77-90. 10.1042/bse0430077

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Abstract

The ability to sense and react to changes in environmental oxygen levels is crucial to the survival of all aerobic life forms. In mammals, specialized tissues have evolved which can sense and rapidly respond to an acute reduction in oxygen and central to this ability in many is dynamic modulation of ion channels by hypoxia. The most widely studied oxygen-sensitive ion channels are potassium channels but oxygen sensing by members of both the calcium and sodium channel families has also been demonstrated. This chapter will focus on mechanisms of physiological oxygen sensing by ion channels, with particular emphasis on potassium channel function, and will highlight some of the consensuses and controversies within the field. Where data are available, this chapter will also make use of information gleaned from heterologous expression of recombinant proteins in an attempt to consolidate what we know currently about the molecular mechanisms of acute oxygen sensing by ion channels.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Biosciences
Subjects:	Q Science > QR Microbiology
Publisher:	Portland Press
ISSN:	0071-1365
Last Modified:	28 Oct 2022 09:44
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/75567

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