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Thermosensation: hot findings make TRPNs very cool
1Department of Biological Chemistry, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA. cmontell@jhmi.edu
Current Biology : CB
|June 20, 2003
Abstract:
TRPV and TRPM proteins have been shown to form temperature-responsive cation channels that act in nociception. Recent work on the mouse ANKTM1 and Drosophila Painless proteins shows that members of a third TRP subfamily, TRPN, also function in thermosensation.