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A hydrophobicity-dependent motif responsible for surface expression of cardiac potassium channel.
Cellular signalling - 1 Feb 2009
Pan Na, Sun Jing, Lv Caixia, Li Hui, Ding Jiuping
Abstract excerpt
The long-QT syndrome (LQTS) is an inherited cardiac disorder associated with syncope and a high risk of sudden death. The molecular basis of type-1 LQTS (LQT1) is a missense or nonsense mutation in KCNQ channels that reduces slowly activating delayed rectifier potassium channel (I(Ks)) resulting in a prolonged action potential. Noticeably, the S2-S3 linker is a highly congregating region of LQT1 mutations. To...
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