Tags: Protein.
ATP-sensitive inward rectifier potassium channel 10 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the KCNJ10 gene.This gene encodes a member of the inward rectifier-type potassium channel family Kir4.1 characterized by having a greater tendency to allow potassium to flow into rather than out of a cell. Kir4.1 may form a heterodimer with another potassium channel protein and may be responsible for the potassium buffering action of glial cells in the brain.