receptors for sulfonylurea drugs are found on membranes of an insulin-secreting hamster beta cell line (HIT cells); do not confuse with Sur2 protein, a hydroxylase; mutation of human SUR1 are associated with the autosomal recessive form of familial hyperinsulinism; genes for SUR1 (encoded by ABCC8) and its associated islet ATP-sensitive potassium channel (Kir6.2; encoded by KCNJ11) are adjacent on human chromosome 11 and they assemble into a ATP-sensitive potassium channel that has a role in INSULIN regulation
Also Known As:
ABCC8 protein, human; ABCC9 protein, human; ATP-binding cassette, sub-family C (CFTR/MRP), member 8 protein, human; ATP-binding cassette, sub-family C (CFTR/MRP), member 8 protein, rat; ATP-binding cassette, sub-family C (CFTR/MRP), member 8, mouse; ATP-binding cassette, sub-family C (CFTR/MRP), member 9 protein, human; ATP-binding cassette, sub-family C (CFTR/MRP), member 9 protein, mouse; Abcc8 protein, mouse; Abcc8 protein, rat; Abcc9 protein, mouse; Abcc9 protein, rat; SUR1 potassium channel, human; SUR1 potassium channel, rat; SUR1 protein, human; SUR1 receptor, human; SUR1 sulfonylurea receptor, mouse; SUR2 potassium channel, rat; SUR2 receptor, human; SUR2A receptor, human; SUR2A sulfonylurea receptor, mouse; SUR2B receptor, mouse; Sur2a protein, mouse; receptor, sulfonylurea; sulfonylurea receptor 2 protein, mouse; sulfonylurea receptor type 1 protein, human; sulfonylurea receptor type 1 protein, mouse; sulfonylurea receptor type 1 protein, rat; sulfonylurea receptors