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Novel mechanism associated with an inherited cardiac arrhythmia: defective protein trafficking by the mutant HERG (G601S) potassium channel.
Circulation - 4 May 1999
Furutani M, Trudeau M C, Hagiwara N, Seki A, Gong Q, Zhou Z, Imamura S, Nagashima H, Kasanuki H, Takao A, Momma K, January C T, Robertson G A, Matsuoka R
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The congenital long-QT syndrome (LQTS) is an inherited disorder characterized by a prolonged cardiac action potential and a QT interval that leads to arrhythmia. Mutations in the human ether-a-go-go-related gene (HERG), which encodes the rapidly activating component of the delayed rectifier current (IKr), cause chromosome 7-linked LQTS (LQT2). Studies of mutant HERG channels in heterologous systems...
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