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Heart rate is slowed in part by acetylcholine-dependent activation of a cardiac potassium (K+) channel, IKACh. Activated muscarinic receptors stimulate lKAch via the G-protein βγ-subunits. It has been assumed that the inwardly rectifying K+-channel gene, GIRK1, alone encodes IKAch-It is now shown that IKAch is a heteromultimer of two distinct inwardly rectifying K+-channel subunits, GIRK1 and a newly cloned member of the family, CIR.
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Krapivinsky, G., Gordon, E., Wickman, K. et al. The G-protein-gated atrial K+ channel IKAch is a heteromultimer of two inwardly rectifying K+-channel proteins. Nature 374, 135–141 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1038/374135a0
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