ANK2

Summary

Gene Symbol: ANK2
Description: ankyrin 2, neuronal
Alias: ANK-2, LQT4, brank-2, ankyrin B, ankyrin, brain, ankyrin-2, ankyrin-2, nonerythrocytic, non-erythroid ankyrin
Species: human

Top Publications

  1. ncbi Inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor localization and stability in neonatal cardiomyocytes requires interaction with ankyrin-B
    Peter J Mohler
    Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
    J Biol Chem 279:12980-7. 2004
  2. ncbi Binding of an ankyrin-1 isoform to obscurin suggests a molecular link between the sarcoplasmic reticulum and myofibrils in striated muscles
    Paola Bagnato
    Molecular Medicine Section, Department of Neuroscience, University of Siena, 53100 Siena, Italy
    J Cell Biol 160:245-53. 2003
  3. ncbi Ankyrin B modulates the function of Na,K-ATPase/inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor signaling microdomain
    Xiao Liu
    Department of Woman and Child Health, Karolinska Institutet, Astrid Lindgren Children s Hospital, Q2 09, SE 171 76 Stockholm, Sweden
    J Biol Chem 283:11461-8. 2008
  4. ncbi The ankyrin-B C-terminal domain determines activity of ankyrin-B/G chimeras in rescue of abnormal inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate and ryanodine receptor distribution in ankyrin-B (-/-) neonatal cardiomyocytes
    Peter J Mohler
    Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
    J Biol Chem 277:10599-607. 2002
  5. ncbi Ankyrin-B mutation causes type 4 long-QT cardiac arrhythmia and sudden cardiac death
    Peter J Mohler
    Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Departments of Cell Biology, Biochemistry, and Neuroscience, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
    Nature 421:634-9. 2003
  6. ncbi Plasma membrane-cytoskeleton-endoplasmic reticulum complexes in neurons and astrocytes
    Lubomira Lencesova
    Department of Physiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, USA
    J Biol Chem 279:2885-93. 2004
  7. ncbi Defining the cellular phenotype of "ankyrin-B syndrome" variants: human ANK2 variants associated with clinical phenotypes display a spectrum of activities in cardiomyocytes
    Peter J Mohler
    Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, USA
    Circulation 115:432-41. 2007
  8. ncbi A cardiac arrhythmia syndrome caused by loss of ankyrin-B function
    Peter J Mohler
    Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101:9137-42. 2004
  9. ncbi Ankyrin-B coordinates the Na/K ATPase, Na/Ca exchanger, and InsP3 receptor in a cardiac T-tubule/SR microdomain
    Peter J Mohler
    Department of Pathology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
    PLoS Biol 3:e423. 2005
  10. ncbi Nervous system defects of AnkyrinB (-/-) mice suggest functional overlap between the cell adhesion molecule L1 and 440-kD AnkyrinB in premyelinated axons
    P Scotland
    Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Departments of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
    J Cell Biol 143:1305-15. 1998

Research Grants

  1. Cellular Basis for Ankyrin-B-Related Cardiac Arrhythmia
    TARA RUTLEDGE; Fiscal Year: 2005
  2. Nanomechanics of Spiral Proteins
    Piotr Marszalek; Fiscal Year: 2009
  3. Nanomechanics of Spiral Proteins
    Piotr E Marszalek; Fiscal Year: 2010
  4. Protein targeting in vertebrate photoreceptors
    Sheila A Baker; Fiscal Year: 2010
  5. Protein targeting in vertebrate photoreceptors
    Sheila A Baker; Fiscal Year: 2010
  6. Hemolytic Anemia: Models
    LUANNE PETERS; Fiscal Year: 2006
  7. Hemolytic Anemia: Models
    Jane Barker; Fiscal Year: 2004
  8. MINORITY PREDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
    Khadar Abdi; Fiscal Year: 2007
  9. Sodium Ions and Calcium Signaling in Neurons and Glia
    Mordecai P Blaustein; Fiscal Year: 2010
  10. Sodium Ions and Calcium Signaling in Neurons and Glia
    Mordecai Blaustein; Fiscal Year: 2007

Scientific Experts

  • Peter J Mohler
  • Krishnakumar Kizhatil
  • Shane R Cunha
  • Thomas J Hund
  • Vann Bennett
  • Olav Rueppell
  • Xiang Zhou
  • N M Thomas
  • Tyson A Clark
  • David H Dreyfus
  • Naina Bhasin
  • THOMAS REEVES
  • L J Martin
  • J Zehelein
  • Matteo Vatta
  • Guillaume T Charras
  • Konstantinos Dean Boudoulas
  • Mordecai Blaustein
  • Helene Benveniste
  • Khadar Abdi
  • LUANNE PETERS
  • Piotr Marszalek
  • DENICE HODGSON ZINGMAN
  • Jane Barker
  • Sheila A Baker
  • Mordecai P Blaustein
  • Tasneem Al-Quadan
  • TARA RUTLEDGE
  • Piotr E Marszalek
  • Crystal F Kline
  • Christopher T D Price
  • Yousef Abu Kwaik
  • Mark E Anderson
  • David J Tester
  • Noriko Ooashi
  • Ling Cheng
  • Michael J Ackerman
  • Chao Wang
  • Tomer Feldmann
  • Sevtap Savas
  • Rupalatha Maddala
  • Tao Zhang
  • Roseanne M Wolf
  • G Harper Mazock
  • Alexey V Glukhov
  • Jane A Healy
  • Leighton Stein
  • Ying Chen
  • Jingdong Li
  • Marina Santic
  • Souhaila Al-Khodor
  • William S Bush
  • Seyed M Hashemi
  • Christopher T Price
  • Stephan Lange
  • Rinki Ratnapriya
  • Yair M Gozal
  • Kristen L Willis
  • Kamil Sedlacek
  • Iris Koch
  • Antonio Drago
  • Solena Le Scouarnec
  • Ya Feng Chen
  • Zhiping Wu
  • Xiao Liu
  • M Raudenská
  • Jan Pielage
  • Anita Aperia
  • Christian Löw
  • Xiao Li Liu
  • Luis F Lopez-Santiago
  • Hiroyuki Kamiguchi
  • Emi Shirahata
  • Amy R Mank-Seymour
  • John D Whittard
  • Jonathan Sherman
  • Johnson Francis
  • Claude Lopez
  • Lubomira Lencesova
  • A E Wiencken-Barger
  • S Tuvia
  • G A Alekperova
  • Anant Khositseth
  • Kazunari Nishimura
  • Paola Bagnato
  • Fei Ye
  • M I Moré
  • Mingjie Zhang
  • Zhiyi Wei
  • T Hayashi

Detail Information

Publications101 found, 100 shown here

  1. ncbi Inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor localization and stability in neonatal cardiomyocytes requires interaction with ankyrin-B
    Peter J Mohler
    Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
    J Biol Chem 279:12980-7. 2004
    ..These new results provide the first physiological evidence of a molecular partner required for early post-translational stability of InsP(3)R...
  2. ncbi Binding of an ankyrin-1 isoform to obscurin suggests a molecular link between the sarcoplasmic reticulum and myofibrils in striated muscles
    Paola Bagnato
    Molecular Medicine Section, Department of Neuroscience, University of Siena, 53100 Siena, Italy
    J Cell Biol 160:245-53. 2003
    ..5 is present in the ank2.2 isoform, which in striated muscles has been also shown to associate with the sarcoplasmic reticulum...
  3. ncbi Ankyrin B modulates the function of Na,K-ATPase/inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor signaling microdomain
    Xiao Liu
    Department of Woman and Child Health, Karolinska Institutet, Astrid Lindgren Children s Hospital, Q2 09, SE 171 76 Stockholm, Sweden
    J Biol Chem 283:11461-8. 2008
    ..Downstream effects include NF-kappaB activation. Here we report that ankyrin B (Ank-B), expressed in most mammalian cells, plays a pivotal role in the function of the Na,K-ATPase/IP3R ..
  4. ncbi The ankyrin-B C-terminal domain determines activity of ankyrin-B/G chimeras in rescue of abnormal inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate and ryanodine receptor distribution in ankyrin-B (-/-) neonatal cardiomyocytes
    Peter J Mohler
    Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
    J Biol Chem 277:10599-607. 2002
    ..C-terminal domains are the most divergent between ankyrin isoforms and are candidates to encode the signal(s) that enable ankyrins to selectively target proteins to diverse cellular sites...
  5. ncbi Ankyrin-B mutation causes type 4 long-QT cardiac arrhythmia and sudden cardiac death
    Peter J Mohler
    Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Departments of Cell Biology, Biochemistry, and Neuroscience, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
    Nature 421:634-9. 2003
    ..We report here that a loss-of-function (E1425G) mutation in ankyrin-B (also known as ankyrin 2), a member of a family of versatile membrane adapters, causes dominantly inherited type 4 long-QT cardiac ..
  6. ncbi Plasma membrane-cytoskeleton-endoplasmic reticulum complexes in neurons and astrocytes
    Lubomira Lencesova
    Department of Physiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, USA
    J Biol Chem 279:2885-93. 2004
    ..The adaptor protein, ankyrin 2 (Ank 2), and the cytoskeletal proteins, alpha-fodrin and beta-spectrin, also selectively co-immunoprecipitated ..
  7. ncbi Defining the cellular phenotype of "ankyrin-B syndrome" variants: human ANK2 variants associated with clinical phenotypes display a spectrum of activities in cardiomyocytes
    Peter J Mohler
    Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, USA
    Circulation 115:432-41. 2007
    Mutations in the ankyrin-B gene (ANK2) cause type 4 long-QT syndrome and have been described in kindreds with other arrhythmias...
  8. ncbi A cardiac arrhythmia syndrome caused by loss of ankyrin-B function
    Peter J Mohler
    Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101:9137-42. 2004
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  9. ncbi Ankyrin-B coordinates the Na/K ATPase, Na/Ca exchanger, and InsP3 receptor in a cardiac T-tubule/SR microdomain
    Peter J Mohler
    Department of Pathology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
    PLoS Biol 3:e423. 2005
    ..Ankyrin-B also is not abundantly expressed in smooth muscle. We propose that the ankyrin-B-based complex is a specialized adaptation of cardiomyocytes with a role for cytosolic Ca2+ modulation...
  10. ncbi Nervous system defects of AnkyrinB (-/-) mice suggest functional overlap between the cell adhesion molecule L1 and 440-kD AnkyrinB in premyelinated axons
    P Scotland
    Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Departments of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
    J Cell Biol 143:1305-15. 1998
    ..These findings provide the first evidence for a role of ankyrinB in the nervous system and support an interaction between 440-kD ankyrinB and L1 that is essential for maintenance of premyelinated axons in vivo...
  11. ncbi Isolation and characterization of cDNAs encoding human brain ankyrins reveal a family of alternatively spliced genes
    E Otto
    Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710
    J Cell Biol 114:241-53. 1991
    ..The brain ankyrin 2 cDNA sequence includes a stop codon and encodes a polypeptide with a predicted molecular mass of 202 kD, which ..
  12. ncbi Targeting and stability of Na/Ca exchanger 1 in cardiomyocytes requires direct interaction with the membrane adaptor ankyrin-B
    Shane R Cunha
    Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA
    J Biol Chem 282:4875-83. 2007
    ..These results raise exciting new questions regarding potentially dynamic roles for ankyrin proteins in the biogenesis and maintenance of specialized membrane domains in excitable cells...
  13. ncbi Targeted mutational analysis of ankyrin-B in 541 consecutive, unrelated patients referred for long QT syndrome genetic testing and 200 healthy subjects
    Jonathan Sherman
    Mayo Medical School, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
    Heart Rhythm 2:1218-23. 2005
    Mutations in ANK2-encoded ankyrin-B underlie long QT syndrome type 4 (LQT4) and various other dysrhythmia phenotypes.
  14. ncbi Mapping of a gene for long QT syndrome to chromosome 4q25-27
    J J Schott
    Laboratoire de Physiopathologie et Pharmacologie Cellulaires et Moléculaires, URA CNRS 1340, CHU de Nantes, France
    Am J Hum Genet 57:1114-22. 1995
    ..A maximal LOD score of 7.05 was found for marker D4S402. The identification of a fourth locus for LQTS confirms its genetic heterogeneity. Locus 4q25-27 is associated with a peculiar phenotype within the LQTS entity...
  15. ncbi Ankyrin-B is required for intracellular sorting of structurally diverse Ca2+ homeostasis proteins
    S Tuvia
    Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Departments of Cell Biology and Biochemistry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
    J Cell Biol 147:995-1008. 1999
    ..Similar mechanisms involving ankyrins may be essential for segregation of functionally defined proteins within specialized regions of the plasma membrane and within the Ca(2+) homeostasis compartment of the ER...
  16. ncbi Regulating ankyrin dynamics: Roles of sigma-1 receptors
    T Hayashi
    Cellular Pathobiology Unit, Cellular Neurobiology Research Branch, Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Drug Abuse National Institutes of Health, 5500 Nathan Shock Drive, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 98:491-6. 2001
    ..proteins that bind certain steroids, neuroleptics, and psychotropic drugs, form a trimeric complex with ankyrin B and IP(3)R type 3 (IP(3)R-3) in NG-108 cells...
  17. ncbi Isolation and chromosomal localization of a novel nonerythroid ankyrin gene
    W T Tse
    Department of Human Genetics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06510
    Genomics 10:858-66. 1991
    ..1991), suggesting that the genomic clone is part of a gene for nonerythroid ankyrin, which we have designated ANK2. By analysis of somatic cell hybrids and fluorescence in situ hybridization, we assigned ANK2 to human chromosome 4 ..
  18. ncbi 440-kD ankyrinB: structure of the major developmentally regulated domain and selective localization in unmyelinated axons
    W Chan
    Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710
    J Cell Biol 123:1463-73. 1993
    ..440-kD ankyrinB thus is a specific component of unmyelinated axons and expression of 440-kD ankyrinB may be downregulated as a consequence of myelination...
  19. ncbi Indispensable role for the eukaryotic-like ankyrin domains of the ankyrin B effector of Legionella pneumophila within macrophages and amoebae
    Christopher T D Price
    Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40202, USA
    Infect Immun 78:2079-88. 2010
    The Dot/Icm-translocated ankyrin B (AnkB) effector of Legionella pneumophila exhibits molecular mimicry of eukaryotic F-box proteins and is essential for intracellular replication in macrophages and protozoa...
  20. ncbi Modulation of p53 activity by IkappaBalpha: evidence suggesting a common phylogeny between NF-kappaB and p53 transcription factors
    David H Dreyfus
    Division of Basic Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, National Jewish Medical Research Center, Denver, CO 80262 USA
    BMC Immunol 6:12. 2005
    ..Interactions between the two proteins, both direct and indirect, have been noted previously and the two proteins play central roles in the control of proliferation and apoptosis...
  21. ncbi Ankyrin-based targeting pathway regulates human sinoatrial node automaticity
    Thomas J Hund
    Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA
    Channels (Austin) 2:404-6. 2008
    ..Ankyrin-B deficient mice displayed bradycardia and heart rate variability similar to individuals harboring an ANK2 variant...
  22. ncbi Ankyrin-based cardiac arrhythmias: a new class of channelopathies due to loss of cellular targeting
    Peter J Mohler
    Department of Pathology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
    Curr Opin Cardiol 20:189-93. 2005
    ..The focus is on ankyrins, a family of proteins that localize diverse membrane ion channels and transporters, and recent evidence that mutations affecting functions of ankyrins result in cardiac arrhythmia...
  23. ncbi Ankyrin-independent membrane protein-binding sites for brain and erythrocyte spectrin
    J P Steiner
    Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Durham, North Carolina
    J Biol Chem 263:14417-25. 1988
    ..This flexibility has implications for assembly of the membrane skeleton and targeting of spectrin isoforms to specialized regions of cells...
  24. ncbi Ankyrin and beta-spectrin accumulate independently of alpha-spectrin in Drosophila
    R R Dubreuil
    Department of Pharmacological and Physiological Sciences, University of Chicago, IL 60637
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 91:10285-9. 1994
    ..The cDNA sequence encodes a 170-kDa protein that is 53% identical to human brain ankyrin (Ank2)...
  25. ncbi Regulation of the ankyrin-B-based targeting pathway following myocardial infarction
    Thomas J Hund
    Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, 285 Newton Road, CBRB 2283, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
    Cardiovasc Res 81:742-9. 2009
    ..Despite a wealth of knowledge implicating the importance of AnkB in human cardiovascular physiology, nothing is known regarding the role of AnkB in common forms of acquired human disease...
  26. ncbi Folding mechanism of an ankyrin repeat protein: scaffold and active site formation of human CDK inhibitor p19(INK4d)
    Christian Löw
    Institut fur Physik, Biophysik, and Mitteldeutsches Zentrum für Struktur und Dynamik der Proteine MZP, Martin Luther Universitat Halle Wittenberg, D 06120 Halle Saale, Germany
    J Mol Biol 373:219-31. 2007
    ..that during refolding, repeats ANK3-ANK5 first form the scaffold for the subsequent assembly of repeats ANK1 and ANK2. The binding function of p19(INK4d) resides in the latter repeats...
  27. ncbi Abnormal cardiac Na(+) channel properties and QT heart rate adaptation in neonatal ankyrin(B) knockout mice
    V S Chauhan
    Division of Cardiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710 3504, USA
    Circ Res 86:441-7. 2000
    ..In conclusion, Na(+) channels in ankyrin(B)(-/-) display reduced I(Na) density and abnormal kinetics at the whole-cell and single-channel level that contribute to prolonged APD(90) and abnormal QT-rate adaptation...
  28. ncbi Cardiac ankyrins in health and disease
    Seyed M Hashemi
    Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA, USA
    J Mol Cell Cardiol 47:203-9. 2009
    ..Loss-of-function variants in the ankyrin-B gene (ANK2) cause "ankyrin-B syndrome" (previously called type 4 long QT syndrome), manifested by a complex cardiac ..
  29. ncbi Cholinergic augmentation of insulin release requires ankyrin-B
    Jane A Healy
    1Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
    Sci Signal 3:ra19. 2010
    ..Thus, defective glycemic regulation through loss of ankyrin-B-dependent stabilization of IP3R is a potential risk factor for type 2 diabetes...
  30. ncbi Ankyrin-B is required for coordinated expression of beta-2-spectrin, the Na/K-ATPase and the Na/Ca exchanger in the inner segment of rod photoreceptors
    Krishnakumar Kizhatil
    Department of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
    Exp Eye Res 88:57-64. 2009
    ..These results are consistent with a mechanism where ankyrin-B is required to restrict the Na/K-ATPase and Na/Ca exchanger to the inner segment of rod photoreceptors by tethering these membrane proteins to beta-2-spectrin...
  31. ncbi Ankyrins and human disease: what the electrophysiologist should know
    Peter J Mohler
    Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA
    J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol 17:1153-9. 2006
    ..Human ANK2 mutations are associated with "ankyrin-B syndrome" (an atypical arrhythmia syndrome with risk of sudden ..
  32. ncbi Lateral membrane biogenesis in human bronchial epithelial cells requires 190-kDa ankyrin-G
    Krishnakumar Kizhatil
    Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Departments of Cell Biology, Biochemistry, and Neuroscience, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
    J Biol Chem 279:16706-14. 2004
    ..Moreover, analysis of rat 190-kDa ankyrin G/ankyrin B chimeras shows that all three domains of 190-kDa ankyrin-G are required for preservation of the lateral membrane...
  33. ncbi Ankyrin-G regulates inactivation gating of the neuronal sodium channel, Nav1.6
    Emi Shirahata
    Department of Pediatrics, Yamagata University School of Medicine, Yamagata, Japan
    J Neurophysiol 96:1347-57. 2006
    ..6. These results suggest that ankyrin-G regulates neuronal excitability not only through clustering Nav channels but also by directly modifying their channel gating...
  34. ncbi Molecular mimicry by an F-box effector of Legionella pneumophila hijacks a conserved polyubiquitination machinery within macrophages and protozoa
    Christopher T Price
    Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA
    PLoS Pathog 5:e1000704. 2009
    ..b>Ankyrin B (AnkB) of L...
  35. ncbi New mutations in the KVLQT1 potassium channel that cause long-QT syndrome
    H Li
    Lillie Frank Abercrombie Section of Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tex 77030, USA
    Circulation 97:1264-9. 1998
    ..Four genes for LQTS have been mapped to chromosome 11p15.5 (LQT1), 7q35-36 (LQT2), 3p21-24 (LQT3), and 4q25-27 (LQT4)...
  36. ncbi The long QT syndrome: a novel missense mutation in the S6 region of the KVLQT1 gene
    M H van den Berg
    Division of Genetics, University Maastricht, The Netherlands
    Hum Genet 100:356-61. 1997
    ..5 (LQT1), 7q35-36 (LQT2), 3p21-24 (LQT3) and 4q25-26 (LQT4)...
  37. ncbi Linkage mapping of autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa (RP1) to the pericentric region of human chromosome 8
    S H Blanton
    Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston 77030
    Genomics 11:857-69. 1991
    ..Thus mutations at two different loci, at least, have been shown to cause ADRP. There is no remarkable clinical disparity in the expression of disease caused by these different loci...
  38. ncbi The role of L1 in axon pathfinding and fasciculation
    A E Wiencken-Barger
    Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
    Cereb Cortex 14:121-31. 2004
    ..expression of ankyrin-B, an intracellular L1 binding partner, suggesting that L1 is involved in the regulation of Ank2 stability...
  39. ncbi The cell adhesion molecule L1 controls growth cone navigation via ankyrin(B)-dependent modulation of cyclic AMP
    Noriko Ooashi
    Laboratory for Neuronal Growth Mechanisms, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, 2 1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351 0198, Japan
    Neurosci Res 63:224-6. 2009
    ..These results indicate that ankyrin(B) regulates axon guidance via cyclic AMP...
  40. ncbi Inhibition of ankyrin-B expression reduces growth and invasion of human pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
    Ying Chen
    Clinical Cooperation Unit Molecular Gastroenterology G350, DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany
    Pancreatology 10:586-96. 2010
    ..Ankyrin-B (ANK2) was identified as being overexpressed in PDAC in a previous study by our group...
  41. ncbi Characterization of an IkappaB-like gene in Cotesia vestalis polydnavirus
    Ya Feng Chen
    Institute of Insect Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
    Arch Insect Biochem Physiol 68:71-8. 2008
    ..In the present work, we cloned the full sequence of gene CvBV-ank2, encoding an IkappaB-like protein in C. vestalis polydnavirus (CvBV)...
  42. ncbi Copy number and gene expression alterations in radiation-induced papillary thyroid carcinoma from chernobyl pediatric patients
    Leighton Stein
    Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Department of Cancer Genetics, Buffalo, New York, USA
    Thyroid 20:475-87. 2010
    ..We have used two high-throughput, whole genome platforms to analyze radiation-induced PTCs from pediatric patients from the Chernobyl region...
  43. ncbi Na,K-ATPase generates calcium oscillations in hippocampal astrocytes
    Xiao Li Liu
    Department of Woman and Child Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
    Neuroreport 18:597-600. 2007
    ..Thus, the specific Na,K-ATPase ligand ouabain induced inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor-dependent calcium oscillations in hippocampal astrocytes, which mediates nuclear factor-kappaB activation...
  44. ncbi Characterization of quantitative trait loci for the age of first foraging in honey bee workers
    Olav Rueppell
    Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1000 Spring Garden Street, Greensboro, NC, 27403, USA
    Behav Genet 39:541-53. 2009
    ..Among the positional candidates the Ank2, PKC, Erk7, and amontillado genes stand out due to corroborating functional evidence...
  45. ncbi Reassembly of contractile actin cortex in cell blebs
    Guillaume T Charras
    Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    J Cell Biol 175:477-90. 2006
    ..Cytochalasin D blocked recruitment of actin and alpha-actinin, but had no effect on membrane association of ankyrin B and ezrin. Ezrin played no role in actin nucleation, but was essential for tethering the membrane to the cortex...
  46. ncbi Major quantitative trait locus for resting heart rate maps to a region on chromosome 4
    Lisa J Martin
    Department of Pediatrics, Center for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center, Mail Code 5041, 3333 Burnet Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio 45229, USA
    Hypertension 43:1146-51. 2004
    ..This signal is in the same region as a quantitative trait locus (QTL) for long QT syndrome 4 and a QTL for heart rate in rats. Within the 1-LOD unit support interval, there are 2 strong candidates: ankyrin-B and myozenin 2...
  47. ncbi Structure of the ZU5-ZU5-UPA-DD tandem of ankyrin-B reveals interaction surfaces necessary for ankyrin function
    Chao Wang
    Division of Life Science, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 109:4822-7. 2012
    ..Finally, the structure of the ankyrin ZZUD provides mechanistic explanations to many disease-causing mutations identified in ankyrin-B&R...
  48. ncbi Familial autosomal dominant reflex epilepsy triggered by hot water maps to 4q24-q28
    Rinki Ratnapriya
    Molecular Biology and Genetics Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore 560064, India
    Hum Genet 126:677-83. 2009
    ..The critical genetic interval spans 22.5 cM and corresponds to about 24 megabases of DNA. The genes NEUROG2, ANK2, UGT8 and CAMK2D, which are known to be expressed in human brain, are strong positional candidates and we propose ..
  49. ncbi Proteolysis of erythrocyte-type and brain-type ankyrins in rat heart after postischemic reperfusion
    K Yoshida
    Department of Legal Medicine, Yamaguchi University School of Medicine, Ube
    J Biochem 122:279-85. 1997
    ..The proteolysis of ankyrin(R) may interfere with force conduction through disruption of the linkage between integral membrane proteins and the myofibril-cytoskeleton...
  50. ncbi Common genetic variants in ANK2 modulate QT interval: results from the KORA study
    Kamil Sedlacek
    Klinik und Poliklinik fur Innere Medizin II, Universitatsklinikum Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
    Circ Cardiovasc Genet 1:93-9. 2008
    ..Given its important role in cardiac electrophysiology, we hypothesized that common genetic variation in ankyrin-B gene (ANK2) might modify QT interval length.
  51. ncbi Identification of a new SCN5A mutation, D1840G, associated with the long QT syndrome. Mutations in brief no. 153. Online
    J Benhorin
    Heiden Department of Cardiology, Bikur Cholim Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel
    Hum Mutat 12:72. 1998
    ..be caused by mutations in four genes LTQ1, LQT2, LQT3 and LQT5, and linkage was reported for an additional locus, LQT4, on chromosome 4q25-27...
  52. ncbi Dual role of K ATP channel C-terminal motif in membrane targeting and metabolic regulation
    Crystal F Kline
    Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:16669-74. 2009
    ..Thus, the K(ATP) channel ABM serves as a previously unrecognized bifunctional touch-point for grading K(ATP) channel gating and membrane targeting and may play a fundamental role in controlling excitable cell metabolic regulation...
  53. ncbi Proteomics analysis reveals novel components in the detergent-insoluble subproteome in Alzheimer's disease
    Yair M Gozal
    Department of Neurology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
    J Proteome Res 8:5069-79. 2009
    ..In addition, we identified and validated the presence of serine protease 15, ankyrin B, and 14-3-3 eta in the detergent-insoluble fraction...
  54. ncbi The effect of the vaccinia K1 protein on the PKR-eIF2alpha pathway in RK13 and HeLa cells
    Kristen L Willis
    Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 601 S Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
    Virology 394:73-81. 2009
    ..Residues in the C-terminal portion of the ANK2 region of K1 were identified as necessary for this inhibitory phenotype...
  55. ncbi Obscurin determines the architecture of the longitudinal sarcoplasmic reticulum
    Stephan Lange
    Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
    J Cell Sci 122:2640-50. 2009
    ..Finally, obscurin knockout mice display centralized nuclei in skeletal muscles as a sign of mild myopathy, but have normal sarcomeric structure and preserved muscle function...
  56. ncbi Genetic variation in the rhythmonome: ethnic variation and haplotype structure in candidate genes for arrhythmias
    William S Bush
    Center for Human Genetics Research and Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
    Pharmacogenomics 10:1043-53. 2009
    ..Here, we report an evaluation of the variation and haplotype structure in six key components of the rhythmonome...
  57. ncbi Ank3 (epithelial ankyrin), a widely distributed new member of the ankyrin gene family and the major ankyrin in kidney, is expressed in alternatively spliced forms, including forms that lack the repeat domain
    L L Peters
    Division of Hematology Oncology, Children s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
    J Cell Biol 130:313-30. 1995
    ..The Ank3 gene maps to mouse Chromosome 10, approximately 36 cM from the centromere, a locus distinct from Ank1 and Ank2. Ank3 is the major kidney ankyrin. Multiple transcripts of approximately 7.5, 6.9, 6.3, 5.7, 5.1, and 4...
  58. ncbi The Na(+)/Ca(2+)-exchanger: an essential component in the mechanism governing cardiac steroid-induced slow Ca(2+) oscillations
    Tomer Feldmann
    The Kuvin Center for the Study of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Institute for Medical Research Israel Canada, The Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel
    Cell Calcium 50:424-32. 2011
    ..by enhancing the interactions between Na(+), K(+)-ATPase, inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor (IP(3)R) and Ankyrin B (Ank-B) to form a Ca(2+) signaling micro-domain...
  59. ncbi Periaxin is required for hexagonal geometry and membrane organization of mature lens fibers
    Rupalatha Maddala
    Department of Ophthalmology, Duke University School of Medicine, NC, USA
    Dev Biol 357:179-90. 2011
    ..Hence, there may be functional parallels between the roles of Prx in membrane stabilization of the myelin sheath and the lens fiber cell...
  60. ncbi Molecular Characterization of Exploitation of the Polyubiquitination and Farnesylation Machineries of Dictyostelium Discoideum by the AnkB F-Box Effector of Legionella Pneumophila
    Tasneem Al-Quadan
    Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, University of Louisville Louisville, KY, USA
    Front Microbiol 2:23. 2011
    The Dot/Icm-translocated Ankyrin B (AnkB) F-box effector of Legionella pneumophila is essential for intra-vacuolar proliferation and functions as a platform for the docking of polyubiquitinated proteins to the Legionella-containing ..
  61. ncbi Beyond membrane channelopathies: alternative mechanisms underlying complex human disease
    Konstantinos Dean Boudoulas
    The Dorothy M Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute, Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
    Acta Pharmacol Sin 32:798-804. 2011
    ..cardiac arrhythmias has been linked with cytoplasmic proteins that include sub-membrane adapters such as ankyrin-B (ANK2), ankyrin-G (ANK3), and alpha-1 syntrophin, membrane coat proteins including caveolin-3 (CAV3), signaling platforms ..
  62. ncbi NCI60 cancer cell line panel data and RNAi analysis help identify EAF2 as a modulator of simvastatin and lovastatin response in HCT-116 cells
    Sevtap Savas
    Fred A Litwin Centre for Cancer Genetics, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada
    PLoS ONE 6:e18306. 2011
    ..testing using False Discovery Rate, our results identified three genes (NRP1, COL13A1, MRPS31) and six genes (EAF2, ANK2, AKAP7, STEAP2, LPIN2, PARVB) associated with resistance to simvastatin and lovastatin, respectively...
  63. ncbi LQTS gene LOVD database
    Tao Zhang
    James D Watson Institute of Genome Sciences, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
    Hum Mutat 31:E1801-10. 2010
    ..Many other genes involved in LQTS have been described recently(KCNJ2, AKAP9, ANK2, CACNA1C, SCNA4B, SNTA1, and CAV3). We created an online database(http://www.genomed.org/LOVD/introduction...
  64. ncbi Defining new insight into atypical arrhythmia: a computational model of ankyrin-B syndrome
    Roseanne M Wolf
    Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA
    Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 299:H1505-14. 2010
    ..These findings provide important insights into the molecular mechanisms underlying a human disease and are relevant for acquired human arrhythmia, where ankyrin-B dysfunction has recently been identified...
  65. ncbi Exploitation of conserved eukaryotic host cell farnesylation machinery by an F-box effector of Legionella pneumophila
    Christopher T D Price
    Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine and 2 Department of Biology, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292, USA
    J Exp Med 207:1713-26. 2010
    ..The Dot/Icm type IV secretion system of Legionella pneumophila injects into host cells the F-box effector Ankyrin B (AnkB), which functions as platforms for the docking of polyubiquitinated proteins to the Legionella-containing ..
  66. ncbi Ankyrin-B regulates Kir6.2 membrane expression and function in heart
    Jingdong Li
    Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA
    J Biol Chem 285:28723-30. 2010
    ..Collectively, our new findings define a new role for cardiac ankyrin polypeptides in regulation of ion channel membrane expression in heart...
  67. ncbi Transgene rescue identifies an essential function for Drosophila beta spectrin in the nervous system and a selective requirement for ankyrin-2-binding activity
    G Harper Mazock
    Department of Biological Sciences and Laboratory for Molecular Biology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, USA
    Mol Biol Cell 21:2860-8. 2010
    ..Domain swap experiments here uncovered a different requirement for neuronal DAnk2 binding to spectrin and establish that DAnk2-binding is critical for beta spectrin function in vivo...
  68. ncbi Proteolysis of submembrane cytoskeletal proteins ankyrin-G and ?II-spectrin following diffuse brain injury: a role in white matter vulnerability at Nodes of Ranvier
    Thomas M Reeves
    Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, School of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, Richmond, VA, USA
    Brain Pathol 20:1055-68. 2010
    ..The time course of such changes were comparable to previously observed functional deficits in callosal fibers...
  69. ncbi Functional anatomy of the murine sinus node: high-resolution optical mapping of ankyrin-B heterozygous mice
    Alexey V Glukhov
    Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington Univ in St Louis, St Louis, MO 63130, USA
    Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 299:H482-91. 2010
    ..from the ankyrin-B (AnkB)-deficient mice display severe pacemaking dysfunction similar to individuals harboring ankyrin 2 allele variants...
  70. ncbi Associations of human erythrocyte band 4.2. Binding to ankyrin and to the cytoplasmic domain of band 3
    C Korsgren
    Department of Biomedical Research, St Elizabeth s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02135
    J Biol Chem 263:10212-8. 1988
    ..2 with band 4.1. Our results show that band 4.2 can form multiple associations with red cell membrane proteins and may therefore play an as yet unrecognized structural role on the membrane...
  71. ncbi Gene transfer to ankyrin-deficient bone marrow corrects spherocytosis in vitro
    G J Dooner
    Cancer Center and Gene Therapy Link Laboratory, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, USA
    Exp Hematol 28:765-74. 2000
    ....
  72. ncbi Targeted ablation of NrCAM or ankyrin-B results in disorganized lens fibers leading to cataract formation
    M I Moré
    Max Delbruck Center for Molecular Medicine, Robert Rossle Strasse 10, D 13092 Berlin, Germany
    J Cell Biol 154:187-96. 2001
    ..Also, these studies provide genetic evidence of an interaction between NrCAM and ankyrin-B...
  73. ncbi Identification of a common genetic substrate underlying postpartum cardiac events in congenital long QT syndrome
    Anant Khositseth
    Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, USA
    Heart Rhythm 1:60-4. 2004
    ..The aim of this study was to elucidate the genetic basis for long QT syndrome (LQTS) in patients with a personal or family history of postpartum cardiac events...
  74. ncbi Sodium channel Scn1b null mice exhibit prolonged QT and RR intervals
    Luis F Lopez-Santiago
    Department of Pharmacology, University of Michigan, 1301 MSRB III, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 0632, USA
    J Mol Cell Cardiol 43:636-47. 2007
    ..Together, these results suggest that beta1 is critical for normal cardiac excitability and loss of beta1 may be associated with a long QT phenotype...
  75. ncbi Discovery of tissue-specific exons using comprehensive human exon microarrays
    Tyson A Clark
    Affymetrix, Inc, Santa Clara, CA 95051, USA
    Genome Biol 8:R64. 2007
    ..Large-scale methods for monitoring gene expression must adapt in order to accurately detect the transcript variation generated by this splicing...
  76. ncbi Identification and characterisation of a novel KCNQ1 mutation in a family with Romano-Ward syndrome
    J Zehelein
    Innere Medizin III, Universitätsklinik Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 410, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
    Biochim Biophys Acta 1690:185-92. 2004
    ....
  77. ncbi Isoform specificity among ankyrins. An amphipathic alpha-helix in the divergent regulatory domain of ankyrin-b interacts with the molecular co-chaperone Hdj1/Hsp40
    Peter J Mohler
    Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Departments of Cell Biology, Biochemistry, and Neurosciences, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
    J Biol Chem 279:25798-804. 2004
    ....
  78. ncbi Association of torsades de pointes with novel and known single nucleotide polymorphisms in long QT syndrome genes
    Amy R Mank-Seymour
    Pharmacogenomics, Molecular Profiling, Groton, CT, USA
    Am Heart J 152:1116-22. 2006
    ..This study was designed to better understand the role of genetics in the development of TdP and to determine whether genotypes can be used to predict susceptibility and thus reduce adverse events...
  79. ncbi Ankyrin-G and beta2-spectrin collaborate in biogenesis of lateral membrane of human bronchial epithelial cells
    Krishnakumar Kizhatil
    Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Departments of Cell Biology, Biochemistry, and Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
    J Biol Chem 282:2029-37. 2007
    ..These results demonstrate that ankyrin-G and beta(2)-spectrin are functional partners in biogenesis of the lateral membrane of epithelial cells...
  80. ncbi Mutant caveolin-3 induces persistent late sodium current and is associated with long-QT syndrome
    Matteo Vatta
    Department of Pediatrics Cardiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children s Hospital, Houston, TX 77030, USA
    Circulation 114:2104-12. 2006
    ..All 8 LQTS genotypes represent primary cardiac channel defects (ie, ion channelopathy) except LQT4, which is a functional channelopathy because of mutations in ankyrin-B...
  81. ncbi Molecular basis for PP2A regulatory subunit B56alpha targeting in cardiomyocytes
    Naina Bhasin
    Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, 285 Newton Road, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
    Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 293:H109-19. 2007
    ..These new data implicate ankyrin-B as a critical targeting component for PP2A in heart and identify a new class of signaling proteins targeted by ankyrin polypeptides...
  82. ncbi Ankyrin-B syndrome: enhanced cardiac function balanced by risk of cardiac death and premature senescence
    Peter J Mohler
    Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America
    PLoS ONE 2:e1051. 2007
    Here we report the unexpected finding that specific human ANK2 variants represent a new example of balanced human variants...
  83. ncbi MAP kinase pathway-dependent phosphorylation of the L1-CAM ankyrin binding site regulates neuronal growth
    John D Whittard
    Department of Pharmacology and Biological Chemistry, Mt Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
    Mol Biol Cell 17:2696-706. 2006
    ..pathway regulates the phosphorylation of the FIGQY motif in the adhesion protein L1-CAM and its interaction with ankyrin B. MAP kinase pathway inhibitors block L1-CAM-mediated neuronal growth...
  84. ncbi Organizing the fluid membrane bilayer: diseases linked to spectrin and ankyrin
    Vann Bennett
    Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
    Trends Mol Med 14:28-36. 2008
    ..Together, these studies identify an emerging paradigm for pathogenesis of human disease where failure in cellular localization of membrane-spanning proteins results in loss of physiological function...
  85. ncbi Strategy for a genetic assessment of antipsychotic and antidepressant-related proarrhythmia
    Antonio Drago
    Institute of Psychiatry, University of Bologna, Viale Carlo Pepoli, 5, 40123 Bologna BO, Italy
    Curr Med Chem 15:2472-517. 2008
    ..So far, a number of genes have been associated with arrhythmia: SCN5A, SCN4B, CACNL1AC, KCNH2, KCNQ1, KCNE1, ANK2, ALG10, KCNJ2, KCNE2, RYR2, KCND3, KCND2, ACE, NOS1AP, CASQ2 and Rad...
  86. ncbi Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia
    Johnson Francis
    Department of Cardiology, Medical College Calicut, Kerala, India
    Heart Rhythm 2:550-4. 2005
    ..As there is a chance for sudden cardiac death if even a single dose of beta-blocker is missed, there is a trend toward implantation of defibrillators in more and more patients...
  87. ncbi L1-mediated branching is regulated by two ezrin-radixin-moesin (ERM)-binding sites, the RSLE region and a novel juxtamembrane ERM-binding region
    Ling Cheng
    Department of Neurosciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
    J Neurosci 25:395-403. 2005
    ..These data are consistent with a model in which L1 can influence L1-mediated neurite outgrowth and branching through both the L1CD and a coreceptor...
  88. ncbi Genotypic heterogeneity and phenotypic mimicry among unrelated patients referred for catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia genetic testing
    David J Tester
    Department of Molecular Pharmacology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, USA
    Heart Rhythm 3:800-5. 2006
    ..Mutations in the RyR2-encoded cardiac ryanodine receptor/calcium release channel and in CASQ2-encoded calsequestrin cause catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT1 and CPVT2, respectively)...
  89. ncbi Role of sigma-1 receptor C-terminal segment in inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor activation: constitutive enhancement of calcium signaling in MCF-7 tumor cells
    Zhiping Wu
    Department of Molecular Pharmacology, Physiology and Biotechnology, Division of Biology and Medicine, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
    J Biol Chem 283:28198-215. 2008
    ..1,4,5-trisphosphate (IP3)-dependent calcium release from endoplasmic reticulum by inducing dissociation of ankyrin B 220 (ANK 220) from the IP3 receptor (IP3R-3), releasing it from inhibition...
  90. ncbi Drosophila ankyrin 2 is required for synaptic stability
    Iris Koch
    Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Department III Genetics, Spemannstrasse 35, 72076 Tubingen, Germany
    Neuron 58:210-22. 2008
    ..In a mutagenesis screen for regulators of synaptic stability, we recovered mutations in Drosophila ankyrin 2 (ank2) affecting two giant Ank2 isoforms that are specifically expressed in the nervous system and associate ..
  91. ncbi A presynaptic giant ankyrin stabilizes the NMJ through regulation of presynaptic microtubules and transsynaptic cell adhesion
    Jan Pielage
    Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158 2822, USA
    Neuron 58:195-209. 2008
    ..mutations that destabilize the neuromuscular junction, we identified a novel long isoform of Drosophila ankyrin2 (ank2-L)...
  92. ncbi Revisiting ankyrin-InsP3 receptor interactions: ankyrin-B associates with the cytoplasmic N-terminus of the InsP3 receptor
    Crystal F Kline
    Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA
    J Cell Biochem 104:1244-53. 2008
    ..In summary, our findings demonstrate that the ankyrin-binding site is located on the cytoplasmic face of the InsP(3) receptor, thus validating the feasibility of in vivo ankyrin-InsP(3) receptor interactions...
  93. ncbi The ammonium transporter RhBG: requirement of a tyrosine-based signal and ankyrin-G for basolateral targeting and membrane anchorage in polarized kidney epithelial cells
    Claude Lopez
    INSERM, U665, Institut National de la Transfusion Sanguine, Paris F 75015, France
    J Biol Chem 280:8221-8. 2005
    ....
  94. ncbi Analysis of erythrocyte and platelet membrane proteins in various forms of beta-thalassemia
    G A Alekperova
    Azerbaijan Medical University, Baku 370022, Azerbaijan
    Biochemistry (Mosc) 69:748-53. 2004
    ..The content of other protein fractions (alpha-actinin, tubulin, tropomyosin) remained unchanged. Changes in protein fractions of erythrocytes and platelets correlated with severity of clinical manifestation of the disease...
  95. ncbi Ankyrin-B targets beta2-spectrin to an intracellular compartment in neonatal cardiomyocytes
    Peter J Mohler
    Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
    J Biol Chem 279:40185-93. 2004
    ..This work also establishes a functional hierarchy in which ankyrin-B determines the localization of beta(2)-spectrin and operates independently of beta(2)-spectrin in its role in organizing membrane-spanning proteins...
  96. ncbi Analysis of ankyrin-B gene mutations in patients with long QT syndrome
    Xiang Zhou
    Department of Pathophysiology, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, China
    Nan Fang Yi Ke Da Xue Xue Bao 26:901-3, 909. 2006
    ..To identify the ankyrin-B gene mutations that cause long QT syndrome (LQTS) and determine the prevalence of such mutations in Japanese patients with LQTS...
  97. ncbi Mutation analysis of candidate genes SCN1B, KCND3 and ANK2 in patients with clinical diagnosis of long QT syndrome
    M Raudenská
    Department of Genetics and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
    Physiol Res 57:857-62. 2008
    ..SCN1B and KCND3 genes encode ion channel proteins, ANK2 gene encodes cytoskeletal protein interacting with ion channels...
  98. ncbi Obscurin targets ankyrin-B and protein phosphatase 2A to the cardiac M-line
    Shane R Cunha
    Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA
    J Biol Chem 283:31968-80. 2008
    ..In summary, our new findings demonstrate that ANK2 is subject to alternative splicing that gives rise to unique polypeptides with diverse roles in cardiac function.
  99. ncbi Exon organization and novel alternative splicing of the human ANK2 gene: implications for cardiac function and human cardiac disease
    Shane R Cunha
    Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
    J Mol Cell Cardiol 45:724-34. 2008
    ..Specifically, decreased expression of ankyrin-B in mice or human mutations in the ankyrin-B gene (ANK2) results in potentially fatal cardiac arrhythmias...
  100. ncbi Dysfunction in ankyrin-B-dependent ion channel and transporter targeting causes human sinus node disease
    Solena Le Scouarnec
    Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale, UMR 915, F 44000 Nantes, France
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:15617-22. 2008
    ..We mapped two families with highly penetrant and severe SND to the human ANK2 (ankyrin-B/AnkB) locus...
  101. ncbi L1-dependent neuritogenesis involves ankyrinB that mediates L1-CAM coupling with retrograde actin flow
    Kazunari Nishimura
    Laboratory for Neuronal Growth Mechanisms, Brain Science Institute, RIKEN, 2 1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351 0198, Japan
    J Cell Biol 163:1077-88. 2003
    ..Our results indicate that ankyrinB promotes neurite initiation by acting as a component of the clutch module that transmits traction force generated by F-actin flow to the extracellular substrate via L1-CAM...

Research Grants43

  1. Cellular Basis for Ankyrin-B-Related Cardiac Arrhythmia
    TARA RUTLEDGE; Fiscal Year: 2005
    ..The goal of this proposed research is to delineate the ankyrin-B dependent targeting pathways of IP3R, NCX and the NKA to SR/T-tubule junctions in cardiomyocytes. ..
  2. Nanomechanics of Spiral Proteins
    Piotr Marszalek; Fiscal Year: 2009
    ....
  3. Nanomechanics of Spiral Proteins
    Piotr E Marszalek; Fiscal Year: 2010
    ....
  4. Protein targeting in vertebrate photoreceptors
    Sheila A Baker; Fiscal Year: 2010
    ..Elucidating the mechanisms controlling these processes is essential for developing therapeutic interventions. ..
  5. Protein targeting in vertebrate photoreceptors
    Sheila A Baker; Fiscal Year: 2010
    ..Together, these experiments will provide mechanistic insight into two targeting pathways used to drive membrane proteins specifically to the inner segment plasma membrane. ..
  6. Hemolytic Anemia: Models
    LUANNE PETERS; Fiscal Year: 2006
    ..There are three known Ank genes, Ank1 (erythroid), Ank2 (brain), and Ank3 (general) with overlapping tissue expression but cell type specific localization and binding ..
  7. Hemolytic Anemia: Models
    Jane Barker; Fiscal Year: 2004
    ..There are three known Ank genes, Ank1 (erythroid), Ank2 (brain), and Ank3 (general) with overlapping tissue expression but cell type specific localization and binding ..
  8. MINORITY PREDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
    Khadar Abdi; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ..Humans heterozygous for mutations in Ank2 (ankyrin-B) display cardiac arrthymia and sudden death...
  9. Sodium Ions and Calcium Signaling in Neurons and Glia
    Mordecai P Blaustein; Fiscal Year: 2010
    ..g., part a2 and part a1, and vice-versa), WT and mutated a truncations, and ankyrin B knockout mice will be used to test the hypothesis that ot2and a3 subunits are targeted to PLasmERosomes by ..
  10. Sodium Ions and Calcium Signaling in Neurons and Glia
    Mordecai Blaustein; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ..g., part a2 and part a1, and vice-versa), WT and mutated a truncations, and ankyrin B knockout mice will be used to test the hypothesis that a2 and a3 subunits are targeted to PLasmERosomes by ..
  11. Role of spectrin/ankyrin-G complex in myocyte signaling and cardiac excitability
    Peter J Mohler; Fiscal Year: 2011
    ....
  12. Molecular Mechanisms of Ankyrin-B-based Arrhythmia
    Peter J Mohler; Fiscal Year: 2010
    ..Human type 4 long QT syndrome (LQT4) results from loss-of-function mutations in the membrane adapter ankyrin-B (AnkB)...
  13. Dysfunction in Ankyrin-based Pathways and Human Arrythmia
    PETER MOHLER; Fiscal Year: 2009
    ..5 targeting pathway and identification/characterization of ankyrin-G-interacting proteins for effects on ankyrin-G/ Nav1.5 localization and expression. ..
  14. Dysfunction in Ankyrin-based Pathways and Human Arrythmia
    PETER MOHLER; Fiscal Year: 2006
    ..5 targeting pathway and identification/characterization of ankyrin-G-interacting proteins for effects on ankyrin-G/ Nav1.5 localization and expression. ..
  15. Dysfunction in Ankyrin-based Pathways and Human Arrythmia
    Peter J Mohler; Fiscal Year: 2010
    ..5 targeting pathway and identification/characterization of ankyrin-G-interacting proteins for effects on ankyrin-G/ Nav1.5 localization and expression. ..
  16. Dysfunction in Ankyrin-based Pathways and Human Arrythmia
    PETER MOHLER; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ..5 targeting pathway and identification/characterization of ankyrin-G-interacting proteins for effects on ankyrin-G/ Nav1.5 localization and expression. ..
  17. Molecular Mechanisms of Ankyrin-B-based Arrhythmia
    PETER MOHLER; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ..Human type 4 long QT syndrome (LQT4) results from loss-of-function mutations in the membrane adapter ankyrin-B (AnkB)...
  18. Mutant ZASP in Cytoskeletal Remodeling and Arrhythmia
    Matteo Vatta; Fiscal Year: 2006
    ..In addition, little is known about the role of Cypher/ZASP mutations in skeletal muscle, and we have suggested that Cypher/ZASP could be a candidate for orphan forms of muscular dystrophies. ..
  19. Axolemmal molecular domains and unmyelinated fiber vulnerability in TBI
    Thomas M Reeves; Fiscal Year: 2010
    ..Neuroprotective drugs are also used to alter the course of the functional and structural effects of injury. ..
  20. Cytoskeletal Basis of Ventricular Arrhythmias
    Matteo Vatta; Fiscal Year: 2005
    ..Identifying cytoskeletal mecahnisms involved in malignant arrhythmias, could lead to the design of novel drugs and the employment of therapeutic means, resulting in a better patients management. ..
  21. Axolemmal molecular domains and unmyelinated fiber vulnerability in TBI
    THOMAS REEVES; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ..Neuroprotective drugs are also used to alter the course of the functional and structural effects of injury. ..