Description
Electrochemical gradients of monovalent cations across the plasma membrane (high intracellular potassium, [K+]i vs low intracellular sodium, [Na+]i) are created by the Na+,K+-pump and determine a large variety of physiologically important processes. We hypothesized that transcriptomics changes triggered by hypoxia are at least partially caused by Na+i/K+i-mediated excitation-transcription coupling .