Chapter title |
Nonsense-Mediated mRNA Decay of hERG Mutations in Long QT Syndrome
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Chapter number | 4 |
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_4 |
Pubmed ID | |
Book ISBNs |
978-1-4939-7361-3, 978-1-4939-7362-0
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Authors |
Qiuming Gong, Zhengfeng Zhou |
Abstract |
Long QT syndrome type 2 (LQT2) is caused by mutations in the human ether-à-go-go related gene (hERG), which encodes the Kv11.1 potassium channel in the heart. Over 30% of identified LQT2 mutations are nonsense or frameshift mutations that introduce premature termination codons (PTCs). Contrary to intuition, the predominant consequence of LQT2 nonsense and frameshift mutations is not the production of truncated proteins, but rather the degradation of mutant mRNA by nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD), an RNA surveillance mechanism that selectively eliminates the mRNA transcripts that contain PTCs. In this chapter, we describe methods to study NMD of hERG nonsense and frameshift mutations in long QT syndrome. |
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