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NaV1.4 mutations cause hypokalaemic periodic paralysis by disrupting IIIS4 movement during recovery.
Brain : a journal of neurology - 1 Apr 2014
Groome James R, Lehmann-Horn Frank, Fan Chunxiang, Wolf Markus, Winston Vern, Merlini Luciano, Jurkat-Rott Karin
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Hypokalaemic periodic paralysis is typically associated with mutations of voltage sensor residues in calcium or sodium channels of skeletal muscle. To date, causative sodium channel mutations have been studied only for the two outermost arginine residues in S4 voltage sensor segments of domains I to III. These mutations produce depolarization of skeletal muscle fibres in response to reduced extracellular...
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