IMR Press / FBL / Volume 10 / Issue 3 / DOI: 10.2741/1739

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Article
Defects in ankyrin-based cellular pathways in metazoan physiology
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1 Department of Pathology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
2 Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Departments of Cell Biology, Biochemistry, and Neurosciences, Duke University Medical Center; Durham, NC 27710
Front. Biosci. (Landmark Ed) 2005, 10(3), 2832–2840; https://doi.org/10.2741/1739
Published: 1 September 2005
Abstract

Ankyrins are a ubiquitously expressed family of membrane-adaptor proteins found in most vertebrate tissues. Since the first ankyrin polypeptide was identified over 25 years ago (1), studies in humans, mice, and lower organisms have implicated critical roles for ankyrins in normal metazoan physiology. This review will provide an overview of the ankyrin family and highlight seminal findings in the field which have linked dysfunction in ankyrin-based pathways with defects in metazoan physiology and human disease.

Keywords
Arrhythmia
long QT
SCN5A
Heart
Sudden Cardiac Death
Trafficking
Review
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