Heart Rhythm
Volume 7, Issue 5 , Pages 708-713 , May 2010

Structural basis for KV7.1–KCNEx interactions in the IKs channel complex

  • Alicia Lundby, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Danish National Research Foundation Centre for Cardiac Arrhythmia, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
    • Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests and correspondence: Dr. Alicia Lundby, NNF Center for Protein Research, Blegdamsvej 3B 6.2.42, DK-2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark
    • ,
  • Gea-Ny Tseng, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
    • ,
  • Nicole Schmitt, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Danish National Research Foundation Centre for Cardiac Arrhythmia, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Received 28 September 2009 ,Accepted 16 December 2009.

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 This work was supported by the Danish National Research Foundation to Drs. Lundby and Schmitt and by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health Grant RO1-HL67840 to Dr. Tseng.

PII: S1547-5271(09)01418-0

doi: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2009.12.017

Heart Rhythm
Volume 7, Issue 5 , Pages 708-713 , May 2010

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