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Mutation of junctophilin type 2 associated with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
Journal of human genetics - 1 Jan 2007
Matsushita Yoshihisa, Furukawa Toru, Kasanuki Hiroshi, Nishibatake Makoto, Kurihara Yachiyo, Ikeda Atsushi, Kamatani Naoyuki, Takeshima Hiroshi, Matsuoka Rumiko
Abstract excerpt
Junctophilin subtypes, designated as JPH1 approximately 4, are protein components of junctional complexes and play essential roles in cellular Ca2+ signaling in excitable cells. Knockout mice lacking the cardiac-type Jph2 die of embryonic cardiac arrest, and the mutant cardiac myocytes exhibit impaired formation of peripheral couplings and arrhythmic Ca2+ signaling caused by functional uncoupling between...
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