Na+ Channel β Subunits: Overachievers of the Ion Channel Family

WJ Brackenbury, LL Isom - Frontiers in pharmacology, 2011 - frontiersin.org
Voltage-gated Na+ channels (VGSCs) in mammals contain a pore-forming α subunit and
one or more β subunits. There are five mammalian β subunits in total: β1, β1B, β2, β3, and …

Sodium channel β subunits: emerging targets in channelopathies

HA O'Malley, LL Isom - Annual review of physiology, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Voltage-gated sodium channels (VGSCs) are responsible for the initiation and propagation
of action potentials in excitable cells. VGSCs in mammalian brain are heterotrimeric …

A computational model of induced pluripotent stem‐cell derived cardiomyocytes incorporating experimental variability from multiple data sources

DC Kernik, S Morotti, HD Wu, P Garg… - The Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Key points Induced pluripotent stem cell‐derived cardiomyocytes (iPSC‐CMs) capture
patient‐specific genotype–phenotype relationships, as well as cell‐to‐cell variability of …

Molecular determinants of cardiac transient outward potassium current (Ito) expression and regulation

N Niwa, JM Nerbonne - Journal of molecular and cellular cardiology, 2010 - Elsevier
Rapidly activating and inactivating cardiac transient outward K+ currents, Ito, are expressed
in most mammalian cardiomyocytes, and contribute importantly to the early phase of action …

Electrophysiology and beyond: multiple roles of Na+ channel β subunits in development and disease

GA Patino, LL Isom - Neuroscience letters, 2010 - Elsevier
Voltage-gated Na+ channel (VGSC) β Subunits are not “auxiliary.” These multi-functional
molecules not only modulate Na+ current (INa), but also function as cell adhesion molecules …

Cardiac fibroblast paracrine factors alter impulse conduction and ion channel expression of neonatal rat cardiomyocytes

DM Pedrotty, RY Klinger, RD Kirkton… - Cardiovascular …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Aims The pathological proliferation of cardiac fibroblasts (CFs) in response to heart injury
results in fibrosis, which correlates with arrhythmia generation and heart failure. Here we …

Cell-specific cardiac electrophysiology models

W Groenendaal, FA Ortega… - PLoS computational …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
The traditional cardiac model-building paradigm involves constructing a composite model
using data collected from many cells. Equations are derived for each relevant cellular …

The role of non-pore-forming β subunits in physiology and pathophysiology of voltage-gated sodium channels

JD Calhoun, LL Isom - Voltage gated sodium channels, 2014 - Springer
Voltage-gated sodium channel β1 and β2 subunits were discovered as auxiliary proteins
that co-purify with pore-forming α subunits in brain. The other family members, β1B, β3, and …

A heart for diversity: simulating variability in cardiac arrhythmia research

H Ni, S Morotti, E Grandi - Frontiers in physiology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
In cardiac electrophysiology, there exist many sources of inter-and intra-personal variability.
These include variability in conditions and environment, and genotypic and molecular …

Loss of H3K4 methylation destabilizes gene expression patterns and physiological functions in adult murine cardiomyocytes

AB Stein, TA Jones, TJ Herron, SR Patel… - The Journal of …, 2011 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Histone H3 lysine 4 (H3K4me) methyltransferases and their cofactors are essential for
embryonic development and the establishment of gene expression patterns in a cell-specific …