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Cancer tissues generally showed weak to moderate cytoplasmic staining. Cases of lymphomas showed nuclear positivity. A majority of lung and skin cancers were negative.
GENE INFORMATION
Gene name
SCN7A (HGNC Symbol)
Synonyms
NaG, Nav2.1, Nav2.2, SCN6A
Description
Sodium channel, voltage gated, type VII alpha subunit (HGNC Symbol)
Entrez gene summary
This gene encodes one of the many voltage-gated sodium channel proteins. For proper functioning of neurons and muscles during action potentials, voltage-gated sodium channels direct sodium ion diffusion for membrane depolarization. This sodium channel protein has some atypical characteristics; the similarity between the human and mouse proteins is lower compared to other orthologous sodium channel pairs. Also, the S4 segments, which sense voltage changes, have fewer positive charged residues that in other sodium channels; domain 4 has fewer arginine and lysine residues compared to other sodium channel proteins. Several alternatively spliced transcript variants exist, but the full-length natures of all of them remain unknown. [provided by RefSeq, Dec 2011]