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Characterization of the role of gamma2 R531G mutation in AMP-activated protein kinase in cardiac hypertrophy and Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome.
American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology - 1 May 2006
Davies Joanna K, Wells Dominic J, Liu Ke, Whitrow Helen R, Daniel Tyrone D, Grignani Robert, Lygate Craig A, Schneider Jürgen E, Noël Gaëtane, Watkins Hugh, Carling David
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AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) is the downstream component of a protein kinase cascade that plays a key role in the regulation of energy metabolism. In humans, mutations in the gamma2-subunit of AMPK cause cardiac hypertrophy associated with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome, characterized by ventricular preexcitation. The effect of these mutations on AMPK activity and in development of the disease is...
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