Kcne2 deletion uncovers its crucial role in thyroid hormone biosynthesis.
Kcne2 deletion uncovers its crucial role in thyroid hormone biosynthesis.
复制标题
作者:
Thyroid dysfunction affects 1–4% of the population worldwide, causing defects including neurodevelopmental disorders, dwarfism and cardiac arrhythmia. Here, we show that KCNQ1 and KCNE2 form a TSH-stimulated, constitutively-active, thyrocyte K+ channel required for normal thyroid hormone biosynthesis. Targeted disruption of Kcne2 impaired thyroid iodide accumulation up to 8-fold, impaired maternal milk ejection and halved milk T4 content, causing hypothyroidism, 50% reduced litter size, dwarfism, alopecia, goiter, and cardiac abnormalities including hypertrophy, fibrosis, and reduced fractional shortening. The alopecia, dwarfism and cardiac abnormalities were alleviated by T3/T4 administration to pups, by supplementing dams with T4 pre- and postpartum, or by pre-weaning surrogacy with Kcne2+/+ dams; conversely these symptoms were elicited in Kcne2+/+ pups by surrogacy with Kcne2−/− dams. The data identify a critical thyrocyte K+ channel, provide a possible novel therapeutic avenue for thyroid disorders, and predict an endocrine component to some previously-identified KCNE2- and KCNQ1-linked human cardiac arrhythmias.
登录
查看更多内容
影响因子:
2.8
作者:
FORFAR, JC;MILLER, HC;TOFT, AD
通讯作者:
TOFT, AD
DOI:
10.2190/adly-1uu0-1a8l-hpxy
发表时间:
1990-01-01
影响因子:
2
作者:
HAGGERTY, JJ;GARBUTT, JC;NEMEROFF, CB
通讯作者:
NEMEROFF, CB
影响因子:
39.2
作者:
Hak, AE;Pols, HAP;Witteman, JCM
通讯作者:
Witteman, JCM
影响因子:
4.8
作者:
FUKUDA, H;OHSHIMA, K;GREER, MA
通讯作者:
GREER, MA
影响因子:
5.9
作者:
GAVIN, LA
通讯作者:
GAVIN, LA