title: The voltage-gated channel accessory protein KCNE2: multiple ion channel partners, multiple ways to long QT syndrome.
abstract: The single-pass transmembrane protein KCNE2 or MIRP1 was once thought to be the missing accessory protein that combined with hERG to fully recapitulate the cardiac repolarising current IKr. As a result of this role, it was an easy next step to associate mutations in KCNE2 to long QT syndrome, in which there is delayed repolarisation of the heart. Since that time however, KCNE2 has been shown to modify the behaviour of several other channels and currents, and its role in the heart and in the aetiology of long QT syndrome has become less clear. In this article, we review the known interactions of the KCNE2 protein and the resulting functional effects, and the effects of mutations in KCNE2 and their clinical role.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
authors.forename: Jodene
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Eldstrom
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Fedida
mesh_terms: D000200:Action Potentials; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000072237:ERG1 Potassium Channel; D051638:Ether-A-Go-Go Potassium Channels / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D008133:Long QT Syndrome / Q000235:genetics*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009154:Mutation; D024642:Potassium Channels, Voltage-Gated / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics* / Q000502:physiology; D051669:Shab Potassium Channels / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D000072237:ERG1 Potassium Channel; D051638:Ether-A-Go-Go Potassium Channels; C496988:KCNB1 protein, human; C489619:KCNE2 protein, human; C000606913:KCNH2 protein, human; D024642:Potassium Channels, Voltage-Gated; D051669:Shab Potassium Channels