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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6923
pubmed:dateCreated
2003-2-6
pubmed:abstractText
Mutations in ion channels involved in the generation and termination of action potentials constitute a family of molecular defects that underlie fatal cardiac arrhythmias in inherited long-QT syndrome. We report here that a loss-of-function (E1425G) mutation in ankyrin-B (also known as ankyrin 2), a member of a family of versatile membrane adapters, causes dominantly inherited type 4 long-QT cardiac arrhythmia in humans. Mice heterozygous for a null mutation in ankyrin-B are haploinsufficient and display arrhythmia similar to humans. Mutation of ankyrin-B results in disruption in the cellular organization of the sodium pump, the sodium/calcium exchanger, and inositol-1,4,5-trisphosphate receptors (all ankyrin-B-binding proteins), which reduces the targeting of these proteins to the transverse tubules as well as reducing overall protein level. Ankyrin-B mutation also leads to altered Ca2+ signalling in adult cardiomyocytes that results in extrasystoles, and provides a rationale for the arrhythmia. Thus, we identify a new mechanism for cardiac arrhythmia due to abnormal coordination of multiple functionally related ion channels and transporters.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
0028-0836
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
6
pubmed:volume
421
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
634-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:12571597-Action Potentials, pubmed-meshheading:12571597-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:12571597-Ankyrins, pubmed-meshheading:12571597-Bradycardia, pubmed-meshheading:12571597-Calcium Channels, pubmed-meshheading:12571597-Calcium Signaling, pubmed-meshheading:12571597-Death, Sudden, Cardiac, pubmed-meshheading:12571597-Electrocardiography, pubmed-meshheading:12571597-Female, pubmed-meshheading:12571597-Heart, pubmed-meshheading:12571597-Heart Rate, pubmed-meshheading:12571597-Heterozygote, pubmed-meshheading:12571597-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:12571597-Inositol 1,4,5-Trisphosphate Receptors, pubmed-meshheading:12571597-Long QT Syndrome, pubmed-meshheading:12571597-Male, pubmed-meshheading:12571597-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:12571597-Mutation, pubmed-meshheading:12571597-Myocardium, pubmed-meshheading:12571597-Patch-Clamp Techniques, pubmed-meshheading:12571597-Pedigree, pubmed-meshheading:12571597-Phenotype, pubmed-meshheading:12571597-Protein Binding, pubmed-meshheading:12571597-Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear, pubmed-meshheading:12571597-Sodium-Calcium Exchanger, pubmed-meshheading:12571597-Sodium-Potassium-Exchanging ATPase
pubmed:year
2003
pubmed:articleTitle
Ankyrin-B mutation causes type 4 long-QT cardiac arrhythmia and sudden cardiac death.
pubmed:affiliation
Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Departments of Cell Biology, Biochemistry, and Neuroscience, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't