Chapter title |
Methods for Characterizing Disease-Associated ATP-Sensitive Potassium Channel Mutations
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Chapter number | 8 |
Book title |
Potassium Channels
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Published in |
Methods in molecular biology, January 2018
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DOI | 10.1007/978-1-4939-7362-0_8 |
Pubmed ID | |
Book ISBNs |
978-1-4939-7361-3, 978-1-4939-7362-0
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Authors |
Balamurugan Kandasamy, Show-Ling Shyng |
Abstract |
The ATP-sensitive potassium (KATP) channel formed by the inwardly rectifying potassium channel Kir6.2 and the sulfonylurea receptor 1 (SUR1) plays a key role in regulating insulin secretion. Genetic mutations in KCNJ11 or ABCC8 which encode Kir6.2 and SUR1 respectively are major causes of insulin secretion disorders: those causing loss of channel function lead to congenital hyperinsulinism, whereas those causing gain of channel function result in neonatal diabetes and in some cases developmental delay, epilepsy, and neonatal diabetes, referred to as the DEND syndrome. Understanding how disease mutations disrupt channel expression and function is important for disease diagnosis and for devising effective therapeutic strategies. Here, we describe a workflow including several biochemical and functional assays to assess the effects of mutations on channel expression and function. |
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