Protein / target
Sodium/potassium-transporting ATPase subunit alpha-1
Protein at a glance
Biological role
P-type sodium:potassium-exchanging transporter
Strongest disease association
Charcot-Marie-tooth disease, axonal, type 2DD
Therapeutic position
Established drug target
Derived from structured UniProt, Open Targets and literature data on this page.
Protein profile
Canonical identity and biological annotation from UniProt.
Function overview
Catalytic subunit of the Na(+)/K(+)-ATPase pump that hydrolyzes ATP to exchange ions across the plasma membrane, exporting 3 Na(+) and importing 2 K(+) per cycle against electrochemical gradients.
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Catalytic subunit of the Na(+)/K(+)-ATPase pump that hydrolyzes ATP to exchange ions across the plasma membrane, exporting 3 Na(+) and importing 2 K(+) per cycle against electrochemical gradients (PubMed:29499166, PubMed:30388404, PubMed:35803952). It undergoes ATP-driven conformational changes that allow alternating binding and release of Na(+) and K(+) ions across the membrane (PubMed:35803952). This process maintains essential Na(+) and K(+) gradients for membrane potential and cellular function. Could also be part of an osmosensory signaling pathway that senses body-fluid sodium levels and controls salt intake behavior as well as voluntary water intake to regulate sodium homeostasis (By similarity)
Subcellular location
Domains and Gene Ontology detail (46)Hide
Gene Ontology
- Capical plasma membrane
- Caxon
- Cbasolateral plasma membrane
- Cendoplasmic reticulum
- Cextracellular exosome
- Cextracellular vesicle
- CGolgi apparatus
- Clateral plasma membrane
- Cmelanosome
- Cmembrane
- Cmembrane raft
- Corganelle membrane
Biological roles
What this protein does, drawn together from its UniProt function, Gene Ontology terms and Reactome pathways.
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Ion channel gating
- ·potassium ion transmembrane transport
- ·sodium ion transmembrane transport
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Concepts derived from UniProt GO Reactome — each badge above shows which sources supported that role.
Interaction neighbourhood
Proteins with the strongest functional or physical association. Node size and line weight reflect STRING confidence; hover or select a partner to inspect one association.
Functional and physical associations from STRING v12.0. Only associations with this protein are drawn — partner-to-partner links are not part of this evidence.
Approved medicines with mapped indications
Approved therapies targeting this protein, grouped by what they are approved to treat — the disease-first view of the medicines below. Relationships come from the canonical approved-indication graph (ChEMBL phase-4), the same source as the drug cards.
Broader indication categories (1)Hide
Broad umbrella indications (e.g. “Neoplasms”). Shown here because every medicine also appears under a more specific disease above — kept for completeness, de-emphasised for clarity.
5 medicines meet Open Targets' target-level approved-medicine definition; the 1 shown here are those on this page with a canonical approved disease indication in the graph. Approved indications from ChEMBL (phase-4), via the canonical drug→disease graph.
Drugs targeting this protein
How approved and investigational drugs engage this protein — mechanism and action type, direct vs complex targeting, and how broadly each acts across other targets. A drug-first view (the section above groups the approved ones disease-first); direct binders with few recorded targets are listed first.
Sodium/potassium-transporting ATPase inhibitor
Indicated for Atrial Fibrillation, Heart Failure, Cardiovascular Diseases
ChEMBL mechanism, action type, target identity and approved indications. Open Targets clinical status.
Translational evidence
Why this target matters therapeutically, strongest evidence first. Disease associations are gene-level (via the gene that encodes this protein) and open into the full confidence synthesis; the development universe, tractability and safety annotations are target-level, from Open Targets.
Strongest disease associations · via encoding gene ATP1A1
Gene-level evidence surfaced through the gene ATP1A1 that encodes this protein — not a direct protein–disease relationship. Ranked by Forefront's causal-directness weighting, so genetically- and clinically-evidenced diseases lead over ones that merely share the literature.
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The evidence agreement range shows how closely the independent evidence families agree — it is not a statistical confidence interval, and nothing here is fitted to outcome data. Derived from Open Targets evidence types under Forefront weighting; the per-type scores above show the calculation.
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Drug development
6 compounds recorded · 5 approved · 1 in clinical development
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Open Targets known-drugs universe. Drug name and highest clinical stage only — the disease relationship is NOT read from this slice (it carries trial-context noise); approved indications come from the canonical graph above.
Tractability
Small molecules — Strong
Antibodies — Emerging
Protein degraders — Emerging
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Raw Open Targets tractability assessment buckets, by modality.
Safety-related annotations
Terms indexed against this target in Open Targets' safety data, with their datasource. These are annotations, not causal claims: the direction of effect (whether activation or inhibition is implicated), species and evidence strength are not captured here, so an entry does not mean that modulating this target is known to cause that condition.
Clinical trials
Trials of drugs that target this protein — reached indirectly through those drugs, so a trial listed here studies the drug, not the protein. Ranked by active status, then clinical phase and recency, and spread across the targeting drugs.
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ClinicalTrials.gov via the drug-target graph.
What's happening now
Recent therapeutic activity around this target — regulatory actions, clinical trials and safety signals for a drug that targets this protein, plus publications where such a drug is a genuine subject. Every item is reached indirectly through the drug, not the protein itself; incidental mentions (a paper that merely measures a drug) and press items are excluded.
- Trial status changed
A Phase 1, Open-Label, Two-Cohort Study to Assess the Effect of a Strong CYP3A4 Inducer on the Pharmacokinetics of Atumelnant and the Effect of Atumelnant on the Pharmacokinetics of CYP3A4, P-gp, and MATE1/2-K Substrates in Healthy Participants
- Label change
Label change: DIGOXIN (ANDA040481)
- Trial status changed
A Phase 2a Biomarker-Driven Trial of Oral Digoxin in Individuals With Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) - The Acacia Trial, an ALS MyMatch Trial
- Trial status changed
A Phase 1, 3-part, Open-label Study to Evaluate the Effects of KarXT Administration on the Pharmacokinetics of Midazolam, Fexofenadine, and Digoxin in Healthy Adult Participants
- Trial status changed
A Phase 1 Study to Evaluate the Effect of Multiple Doses of ABBV-722 on the Pharmacokinetics of Cocktail Probe Substrates of CYP3A and Select Transporters in Healthy Adult Subjects
- New publicationDrug-Drug Interactions Between Glucagon-Like Peptide 1 Receptor Agonists and Oral Medications: A Systematic Review.
- Label change
Label change: DIGOXIN (ANDA040481)
- Label change
Label change: DIGOXIN (ANDA040481)
- Label change
Label change: DIGOXIN (ANDA040481)
- Label change
Label change: DIGOXIN (ANDA040481)
- Regulatory approval
Approval: DIGOXIN (ANDA040481)
- New publicationDual-chamber pacing or ventricular backup pacing in patients with an implantable defibrillator: the Dual Chamber and VVI Implantable Defibrillator (DAVID) Trial.
Objective event titles are shown unmodified; the event kind and significance line are derived from structured fields. Forefront AttentionEvent stream aggregating Europe PMC Regulatory filings ClinicalTrials.gov.