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KCNE2 confers background current characteristics to the cardiac KCNQ1 potassium channel.
The EMBO journal - 1 Dec 2000
Tinel N, Diochot S, Borsotto M, Lazdunski M, Barhanin J
Abstract excerpt
Mutations in HERG and KCNQ1 (or KVLQT1) genes cause the life-threatening Long QT syndrome. These genes encode K(+) channel pore-forming subunits that associate with ancillary subunits from the KCNE family to underlie the two components, I(Kr) and I(Ks), of the human cardiac delayed rectifier current I(K). The KCNE family comprises at least three members. KCNE1 (IsK or MinK) recapitulates I(Ks) when associated...
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