1.A.1.2.24
Voltage-gated K⁺ channel, KCNC1 (K_v3.1) of 511 aas and 6 TMSs.  It plays an important role in the rapid repolarization of fast-firing brain neurons. The channel opens in response to the voltage difference across the membrane, forming a potassium-selective channel through which potassium ions pass in accordance with their electrochemical gradient (Muona et al. 2015). Can form functional homotetrameric channels and heterotetrameric channels that contain variable proportions of KCNC2 (TC# 1.A.1.2.23), and possibly other family members as well. Contributes to fire sustained trains of very brief action potentials at high frequency in pallidal neurons. Causes various genetic neurological disorders when functioning abnormally such as attention deficit/hyperactivity (Yuan et al. 2017), myoclonus epilepsy and ataxia (Oliver et al. 2017) and intellectual disability (Poirier et al. 2017). The lipid environment, including 7-ketocholesterol (7KC), 24S-hydroxycholesterol (24S-OHC) and tetracosanoic acid (C24:0) affects Kv3.1b channel expression/functionality (Bezine et al. 2018).