1.A.1.9.11
pH-dependent, voltage-insensitive, background potassium channel protein involved in maintaining the membrane potential, KCNK9, K2P9.1 or TASK3 (TASK-3) of 374 aas  (Huang et al. 2011). Terbinafine is a selective activator of TASK3 (Wright et al. 2017). The response of the tandem pore potassium channel TASK-3 to voltage involves gating at the cytoplasmic mouth (Ashmole et al., 2009).  TASK-3 is involved in several physiological and pathological processes including sleep/wake control, cognition and epilepsy (Tian et al. 2019). N-(2-((4-nitro-2-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl)amino)ethyl)benzamide (NPBA) is an activator (Tian et al. 2019). KCC2 regulates neuronal excitability and hippocampal activity via interaction with Task-3 channels (Goutierre et al. 2019). A  biguanide compound, CHET3, is a highly selective allosteric activator, and TASK-3 is a druggable target for treating pain (Liao et al. 2019). This channel may be present in mitochondria (Parrasia et al. 2019). Differential hydroxymethylation levels in the DNA of patient-derived neural stem cells implicated altered cortical development in bipolar disorder syndrome possibly altering KCNK9 expression (Kumar et al. 2023).