Novel mechanism associated with an inherited cardiac arrhythmia: Defective protein trafficking by the mutant HERG (G601S) potassium channel

Circulation

Volumn 99, Issue 17, 1999, Pages 2290-2294

  Furutani, Michiko ^a   Trudeau, Matthew C ^b   Hagiwara, Nobuhisa ^a   Seki, Akiko ^a   Gong, Qiuming ^c   Zhou, Zhengfeng ^c   Imamura, Shin Ichiro ^a   Nagashima, Hirotaka ^a   Kasanuki, Hiroshi ^a   Takao, Atsuyoshi ^a   Momma, Kazuo ^a   January, Craig T ^c   Robertson, Gail A ^b   Matsuoka, Rumiko ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Arrhythmia; Genes; Long QT syndrome

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 7; GENE; GENE MUTATION; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LONG QT SYNDROME; MISSENSE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; XENOPUS;

EID: 0032903775     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.99.17.2290     Document Type: Article

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