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Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
KCNQ channel structure is composed of six transmembrane segmental helices, classified as S1–S6. In addition, the S1–S4 transmembrane segmental helices compose the actual voltage sensation region, and the latter two (S5–S6) units are the actual gate of the channel.