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SUBMITTER: Abraham DM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6205385 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The Journal of clinical investigation 20181002 11
Cardiac two-pore domain potassium channels (K2P) exist in organisms from Drosophila to humans; however, their role in cardiac function is not known. We identified a K2P gene, CG8713 (sandman), in a Drosophila genetic screen and show that sandman is critical to cardiac function. Mice lacking an ortholog of sandman, TWIK-related potassium channel (TREK-1, also known Kcnk2), exhibit exaggerated pressure overload-induced concentric hypertrophy and alterations in fetal gene expression, yet retain pre ...[more]