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Calcium channel splicing: mind your Ps and Qs

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Bourinet and colleagues show that combinations of P- and Q-like characteristics can arise through alternative splicing of a single gene encoding the calcium channel α1A subunit.

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Figure 1: Schematic structure of the pore-forming (α1) subunit of voltage-gated calcium channels, showing two regions affected by alternative splicing.

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