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Mechanisms of disease pathogenesis in long QT syndrome type 5.
American journal of physiology. Cell physiology - 1 Feb 2010
Harmer Stephen C, Wilson Andrew J, Aldridge Robert, Tinker Andrew
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KCNE1 associates with the pore-forming alpha-subunit KCNQ1 to generate the slow (I(Ks)) current in cardiac myocytes. Mutations in either KCNQ1 or KCNE1 can alter the biophysical properties of I(Ks) and mutations in KCNE1 underlie cases of long QT syndrome type 5 (LQT5). We previously investigated a mutation in KCNE1, T58P/L59P, which causes severe attenuation of I(Ks). However, how T58P/L59P acts to disrupt I(Ks)...
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