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The ATP-regulated K+ channel in mitochondria: five years after its discovery
1M. Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw, Poland.
Acta Biochimica Polonica
|January 1, 1996
Abstract:
Mitochondria contain a potassium specific channel (mitoKATP channel) sensitive to ATP and antidiabetic sulfonylureas. The mitochondrial KATP channel plays an important role in the mitochondrial volume control and in regulation of the components of protonmotive force. This minireview describes the properties and current hypotheses concerning the function of mitoKATP channel.