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Mutation analysis of AMP-activated protein kinase subunits in inherited cardiomyopathies: implications for kinase function and disease pathogenesis.
Journal of molecular and cellular cardiology - 1 Oct 2003
Oliveira Sandra Marisa J, Ehtisham Javed, Redwood Charles S, Ostman-Smith Ingegerd, Blair Edward M, Watkins Hugh
Abstract excerpt
Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) has been defined as a disease of the cardiac sarcomere, although sarcomeric protein mutations are not found in one third of cases. We have recently shown that HCM associated with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome (WPW) and conduction disease can be caused by mutations in PRKAG2, which encodes the gamma2 subunit of AMPK, an enzyme central to cellular energy homeostasis. AMPK...
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