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ArticleMethods in enzymology2021

In vitro discovery of novel prokaryotic ion channel candidates for antiarrhythmic gene therapy.

Tianyu Wu, Hung X Nguyen, Nenad Bursac

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Article in Methods in enzymology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2.2field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Prokaryotic voltage-gated sodium channels are more effective than endogenous NaAmerican journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Tianyu WuDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States.
Hung X NguyenDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States.
Nenad BursacDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States. Electronic address: nbursac@duke.edu.
Duke University · US

Funding

Integrated Cellular and Tissue Engineering for Ischemic Heart DiseaseU01HL134764 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI BURSAC, NENAD, KAMP, TIMOTHY J. · 2016 to 2022
$7.7M
In Vitro and In Situ Engineering of Fibroblasts for Cardiac RepairR01HL132389 · NHLBI · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI BURSAC, NENAD · 2016 to 2019
$2.0M
Engineering of Human Excitable Tissues from Unexcitable CellsR01HL126524 · NHLBI · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI BURSAC, NENAD · 2016 to 2019
$1.9M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL126524NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL132389NHLBI NIH HHS U01 HL134764
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sudden cardiac death continues to have a devastating impact on public health prompting the continued efforts to develop more effective therapies for cardiac arrhythmias. Among different approaches to normalize function of ion channels and prevent arrhythmogenic remodeling of tissue substrate, cardiac cell and gene therapies are emerging as promising strategies to restore and maintain normal heart rhythm. Specifically, the ability to genetically enhance electrical excitability of diseased hearts through voltage-gated sodium channel (VGSC) gene transfer could improve velocity of action potential conduction and act to stop reentrant circuits underlying sustained arrhythmias. For this purpose, prokaryotic VGSC genes are promising therapeutic candidates due to their small size (<1kb) and potential to be effectively packaged in adeno-associated viral (AAV) vectors and delivered to cardiomyocytes for stable, long-term expression. This article describes a versatile method to discover and characterize novel prokaryotic ion channels for use in gene and cell therapies for heart disease including cardiac arrhythmias. Detailed protocols are provided for: (1) identification of potential ion channel candidates from large genomic databases, (2) candidate screening and characterization using site-directed mutagenesis and engineered human excitable cell system and, (3) candidate validation using electrophysiological techniques and an in vitro model of impaired cardiac impulse conduction.

Indexed as

Arrhythmias, CardiacIon ChannelsAction PotentialsGenetic TherapyHumansMyocytes, CardiacIon ChannelsArrhythmiaExcitabilityGene therapyProkaryotic channelSite-directed mutagenesisSodium current

Identifiers

PMID34120724
PMCPMC8985828
OpenAlexW3154756391

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