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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 281, Issue 7, 4069-4074, February 17, 2006

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Mechanisms of Pharmacological Rescue of Trafficking-defective hERG Mutant Channels in Human Long QT Syndrome^*

From the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon 97239

Long QT syndrome type 2 is caused by mutations in the human ether-a-go-go-related gene (hERG). We previously reported that the N470D mutation is retained in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) but can be rescued to the plasma membrane by hERG channel blocker E-4031. The mechanisms of ER retention and how E-4031 rescues the N470D mutant are poorly understood. In this study, we investigated the interaction of hERG channels with the ER chaperone protein calnexin. Using coimmunoprecipitation, we showed that the immature forms of both wild type hERG and N470D associated with calnexin. The association required N-linked glycosylation of hERG channels. Pulse-chase analysis revealed that N470D had a prolonged association with calnexin compared with wild type hERG and E-4031 shortened the time course of calnexin association with N470D. To test whether the prolonged association of N470D with calnexin is due to defective folding of mutant channels, we studied hERG channel folding using the trypsin digestion method. We found that N470D and the immature form of wild type hERG were more sensitive to trypsin digestion than the mature form of wild type hERG. In the presence of E-4031, N470D became more resistant to trypsin even when its ER-to-Golgi transport was blocked by brefeldin A. These results suggest that defective folding of N470D contributes to its prolonged association with calnexin and ER retention and that E-4031 may restore proper folding of the N470D channel leading to its cell surface expression.

Received for publication, November 1, 2005

^* This work was supported by National Institutes of Health Grant HL68854 (to Z. Z.). The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked "advertisement" in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.

¹ To whom correspondence should be addressed: Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, NRC3, Oregon Health & Science University, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Rd., Portland, OR 97239. Tel.: 503-494-2713; Fax: 503-494-7368; E-mail: zhouzh{at}ohsu.edu.

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