Mr Joseph Carr
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Research interests
I am interested in the structure-function relationships in voltage-gated and inwardly-rectifying potassium channels, as well as their interacting proteins. My current project examines effects of arrhythmia-associated genetic variants in such potassium channels.
Publications
Recent publications
19/02/2026Probing the cardiac Kir2.1-Nav1.5 channelosome using trafficking and gating-defective arrhythmia-associated KCNJ2 variants
Quantitative analysis of trafficking defects induced by heterozygous expression of hERG voltage sensor domain variants
Channels
Aged Zebrafish as a Spontaneous Model of Cardiac Valvular Disease
Aging Cell
The rapid delayed-rectifier potassium current
Nature Reviews Cardiology
Long QT syndrome-associated calmodulin variants disrupt the activity of the slowly activating delayed rectifier potassium channel
The Journal of Physiology
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