CACNA1G
CACNA1G (Voltage-dependent T-type calcium channel subunit alpha-1G) is a gene. The public catalogues list it as a drug target, and an approved or late-stage drug is recorded against it.
Overview
Voltage-sensitive calcium channels (VSCC) mediate the entry of calcium ions into excitable cells and are also involved in a variety of calcium-dependent processes, including muscle contraction, hormone or neurotransmitter release, gene expression, cell motility, cell division and cell death. The isoform alpha-1G gives rise to T-type calcium currents. T-type calcium channels belong to the 'low-voltage activated (LVA)' group and are strongly blocked by mibefradil.
Open Targets scores its association with cancer at 0.55 (direct and indirect evidence; datatypes literature 0.60, animal model 0.52, genetic association 0.00, clinical 0.87).
- Target · the protein and the cell it sits on
- Drug · antibody, small molecule, cell or radioligand
- Effect · signal, damage or kill
In plain words · CACNA1G (Voltage-dependent T-type calcium channel subunit alpha-1G) is a gene. The public catalogues list it as a drug target, and an approved or late-stage drug is recorded against it.
- 1 · What it is
CACNA1G (Voltage-dependent T-type calcium channel subunit alpha-1G) is a gene. The public catalogues list it as a drug target, and an approved or late-stage drug is recorded against it.
- 2 · What goes wrong in cancer
Voltage-sensitive calcium channels (VSCC) mediate the entry of calcium ions into excitable cells and are also involved in a variety of calcium-dependent processes, including muscle contraction, hormone or neurotransmitter release, gene expression, cell motility, cell division and cell death.
- 3 · How drugs use it
No product in this corpus aims at CACNA1G yet. Drugs bind the molecule precisely: to switch it off, flag the cell for the immune system, or deliver a payload.
External identifiers
Sources: HGNC HGNC:1394 (approved symbol, name, aliases, locus and cross-references (hgnc_complete_set.txt)); UniProt O43497 (protein name, function text, keywords and locations (REST API)); Open Targets ENSG00000006283 (association with cancer (MONDO_0004992) 0.55; (GraphQL API, CC0))
Biology
Voltage-sensitive calcium channels (VSCC) mediate the entry of calcium ions into excitable cells and are also involved in a variety of calcium-dependent processes, including muscle contraction, hormone or neurotransmitter release, gene expression, cell motility, cell division and cell death. The isoform alpha-1G gives rise to T-type calcium currents. T-type calcium channels belong to the 'low-voltage activated (LVA)' group and are strongly blocked by mibefradil. A particularity of this type of channel is an opening at quite negative potentials and a voltage-dependent inactivation. T-type channels serve pacemaking functions in both central neurons and cardiac nodal cells and support calcium signalling in secretory cells and vascular smooth muscle. They may also be involved in the modulation of firing patterns of neurons which is important for information processing as well as in cell growth processes. Location: Cell membrane; Cytoplasm (UniProt). Locus 17q21.33 (HGNC).
Notes
top- Written by scripts/fetch-cancer-genes.ts from CIViC, Open Targets, IntOGen, HGNC and UniProt; the function text is UniProt's, condensed and in UK spelling. Roles: Open Targets known-drug datatype score 0.87. Evidence tier "approved-drug" is the strongest of those signals.
- Prevalence not recorded: none of the sources gives a positivity rate.
Latest papers
topQuery for this target: (TITLE:"CACNA1G" OR ABSTRACT:"CACNA1G" OR TITLE:"calcium voltage-gated channel subunit alpha1 G" OR ABSTRACT:"calcium voltage-gated channel subunit alpha1 G" OR TITLE:"Voltage-dependent T-type calcium channel subunit alpha-1G" OR ABSTRACT:"Voltage-dependent T-type calcium channel subunit alpha-1G" OR TITLE:"Cav3.1" OR ABSTRACT:"Cav3.1" OR TITLE:"NBR13" OR ABSTRACT:"NBR13") 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 CACNA1G, not a curated reading list.