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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
卷 9, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-06514-5
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- NIH Office of Research Infrastructure Programs [P40 OD010440]
- Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Science [XDBS1020100]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31471149, 81527901, 81422003]
- National Key R&D Program of China [2017YFA0102800, 2017YFA0103700]
Ion channels are important therapeutic targets, but the discovery of ion channel drugs remains challenging due to a lack of assays that allow high-throughput screening in the physiological context. Here we report C. elegans phenotype-based methods for screening ion channel drugs. Expression of modified human ether-a-go-go-related gene (hERG) potassium channels in C. elegans results in egg-laying and locomotive defects, which offer indicators for screening small-molecule channel modulators. Screening in worms expressing hERG(A561V), which carries a trafficking-defective mutation A561V known to associate with long-QT syndrome, identifies two functional correctors Prostratin and ingenol-3,20-dibenzoate. These compounds activate PKC epsilon signaling and consequently phosphorylate S606 at the pore region of the channel to promote hERGA561V trafficking to the plasma membrane. Importantly, the compounds correct electrophysiological abnormalities in hiPSC-derived cardiomyocytes bearing a heterozygous CRISPR/Cas9-edited hERG(A561V). Thus, we have developed an in vivo high-throughput method for screening compounds that have therapeutic potential in treating channelopathies.
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