Nature Communications (Oct 2018)

Long non-coding RNA CCRR controls cardiac conduction via regulating intercellular coupling

  • Yong Zhang,
  • Lihua Sun,
  • Lina Xuan,
  • Zhenwei Pan,
  • Xueling Hu,
  • Hongyu Liu,
  • Yunlong Bai,
  • Lei Jiao,
  • Zhange Li,
  • Lina Cui,
  • Xiaoxue Wang,
  • Siqi Wang,
  • Tingting Yu,
  • Bingbing Feng,
  • Ying Guo,
  • Zonghong Liu,
  • Weixin Meng,
  • Hequn Ren,
  • Jiyuan Zhu,
  • Xuyun Zhao,
  • Chao Yang,
  • Ying Zhang,
  • Chaoqian Xu,
  • Zhiguo Wang,
  • Yanjie Lu,
  • Hongli Shan,
  • Baofeng Yang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06637-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Long noncoding RNAs have been shown to play a role in cardiovascular disease. Here, the authors identify a lncRNA named CCRR, whose downregulation in failing hearts causes cardiac conduction disturbances by altering the endocytic trafficking of Cx43.