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SCN8A (Sodium channel protein type 8 subunit alpha) is a gene. The public catalogues list it as a drug target and a biomarker, and an approved or late-stage drug is recorded against it. Tied to Non-small-cell lung cancer. This dossier gathers the 0 products (0 approved), 0 trials, 0 pathways and 0 resistance routes in the corpus that involve it, with external identifiers so it can be joined to UniProt, ChEMBL, Open Targets and the rest of biology.

Biology

Pore-forming subunit of a voltage-gated sodium channel complex assuming opened or closed conformations in response to the voltage difference across membranes and through which sodium ions selectively pass along their electrochemical gradient. Contributes to neuronal excitability by regulating action potential threshold and propagation. More specifically expressed in non-neuronal cells, could play a role in sodium release from intracellular compartments and participate in the control of podosomes formation and macrophages adhesion and movement. Location: Cell membrane; Cell projection, axon; Cytoplasmic vesicle; Cell projection, podosome (UniProt). Locus 12q13.13 (HGNC).

Where it is found
  • Non-small-cell lung cancer: CIViC evidence names this disease
Class: other · Gene: SCN8A · Facts checked 2026-09-23 · Target page

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Query for this target: (TITLE:"SCN8A" OR ABSTRACT:"SCN8A" OR TITLE:"sodium voltage-gated channel alpha subunit 8" OR ABSTRACT:"sodium voltage-gated channel alpha subunit 8" OR TITLE:"Sodium channel protein type 8 subunit alpha" OR ABSTRACT:"Sodium channel protein type 8 subunit alpha" OR TITLE:"Nav1.6" OR ABSTRACT:"Nav1.6" OR TITLE:"NaCh6" OR ABSTRACT:"NaCh6" OR TITLE:"PN4" OR ABSTRACT:"PN4") AND (cancer OR tumor OR tumour OR oncology OR carcinoma OR lymphoma OR leukemia OR leukaemia OR myeloma OR sarcoma OR melanoma OR glioma). Results are unfiltered search hits about SCN8A, not a curated reading list.

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The dossier as machine-readable JSON: identifiers from HGNC, Ensembl, UniProt and ChEMBL, products with status, trials, pathways, hotspots, open questions and assays. The full entity record is in the open API at /api/v1/entities/scn8a.json. Licence CC BY-NC 4.0.