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The Nav1.4 channel is expressed in skeletal muscles, and its related channelopathies affect skeletal muscle excitability, which can manifest as SCM, paramyotonia and periodic paralysis. In this study, the missense mutation p.V445M was identified in two individual families with MC. To determine the functional consequences of having a mutated Nav1.4 channel, whole-cell patch-clamp recording of transfected Chinese hamster ovary cells was performed. Evaluation of the transient Na+ current found that a hyperpolarizing shift occurs at both the activation and inactivation curves with an increase of the window currents in the mutant channels. The Nav1.4 channel\u2019s co-expression with the Nav\u03b24 peptide can generate resurgent Na+ currents at repolarization following a depolarization. The magnitude of the resurgent currents is higher in the mutant than in the wild-type (WT) channel. Although the decay kinetics are comparable between the mutant and WT channels, the time to the peak of resurgent Na+ currents in the mutant channel is significantly protracted compared with that in the WT channel. These findings suggest that the p.V445M mutation in the Nav1.4 channel results in an increase of both sustained and resurgent Na+ currents, which may contribute to hyperexcitability with repetitive firing and is likely to facilitate recurrent myotonia in SCM patients.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ijms21072593","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,4,9]],"date-time":"2020-04-09T03:40:19Z","timestamp":1586403619000},"page":"2593","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":10,"title":["Changes of Resurgent Na+ Currents in the Nav1.4 Channel Resulting from an SCN4A Mutation Contributing to Sodium Channel Myotonia"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"21","author":[{"given":"Chiung-Wei","family":"Huang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Physiology, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung 80708, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4782-3349","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hsing-Jung","family":"Lai","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei 10051, Taiwan"},{"name":"Department of Neurology, National Taiwan University Hospital Jinshan Branch, New Taipei City 20844, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Pi-Chen","family":"Lin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung 80708, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ming-Jen","family":"Lee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei 10051, Taiwan"},{"name":"Department of Neurology, National Taiwan University Hospital Yunlin Branch, Yunlin 10051, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,4,8]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"305","DOI":"10.1007\/978-90-481-9485-8_18","article-title":"Hereditary channelopathies in neurology","volume":"686","author":"Lerche","year":"2010","journal-title":"Adv. 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