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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-CELL PHYSIOLOGY
卷 286, 期 6, 页码 C1453-C1463出版社
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.00275.2003
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potassium channel; hereditary arrhythmia; electrophysiology; protein interaction
Cardiac I-Ks, the slowly activated delayed-rectifier K+ current, is produced by the protein complex composed of alpha- and beta-subunits: KvLQT1 and minK. Mutations of genes encoding KvLQT1 and minK are responsible for the hereditary long QT syndrome (loci LQT1 and LQT5, respectively). MinK-L51H fails to traffic to the cell surface, thereby failing to produce effective IKs. We examined the effects that minK-L51H and an endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-targeted minK (minK-ER) exerted over the electrophysiology and biosynthesis of coexpressed KvLQT1. Both minK-L51H and minK-ER were sequestered primarily in the ER as confirmed by lack of plasma membrane expression. Glycosylation and immunofluorescence patterns of minK-L51H were qualitatively different for minK-ER, suggesting differences in trafficking. Cotransfection with the minK mutants resulted in reduced surface expression of KvLQT1 as assayed by whole cell voltage clamp and immunofluorescence. MinK-L51H reduced current amplitude by 91% compared with wildtype (WT) minK/KvLQT1, and the residual current was identical to KvLQT1 without minK. The phenotype of minK-L51H on I-Ks was not dominant because coexpressed WT minK rescued the current and surface expression. Collectively, our data suggest that ER quality control prevents minK-L51H/KvLQT1 complexes from trafficking to the plasma membrane, resulting in decreased I-Ks. This is the first demonstration that a minK LQT mutation is capable of conferring trafficking defects onto its associated alpha-subunit.
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