Research Article

Whole-Exome Sequencing Identified a De Novo Mutation of Junction Plakoglobin (p.R577C) in a Chinese Patient with Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy

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The genetic analysis and functional research of the p.R577C mutation. (a) Sequencing results of the JUP mutation. Sequence chromatogram indicates a C to T transition of nucleotide 1729. (b) Analysis of the mutation and protein domains of JUP. The R577 affected amino acid locates in the highly conserved amino acid region in different mammals (from Ensembl). The black arrow shows the R577 site. (c) Swiss-model analyzed the JUP structures of WT and Mutated (p.R577C). (d) Western blot analyzed the levels of HIS, DSG2, Connexin 43, and GAPDH in normal and mutation cells lysis. represents p< 0.001.

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