ent -Verticilide B1 inhibits type 2 ryanodine receptor channels and is antiarrhythmic in Casq2-/- mice.
Aaron GochmanTri Q DoKyungsoo KimJacob A SchwarzMadelaine P ThorpeDaniel J BlackwellAbigail N SmithWendell S AkersRazvan L CorneaDerek R LaverJeffrey N JohnstonBjörn C KnollmannPublished in: bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology (2023)
The cardiac ryanodine receptor (RyR2) is an untapped target in the stagnant field of antiarrhythmic drug development. We have confirmed RyR2 as an antiarrhythmic target in a mouse model of sudden cardiac death and shown the therapeutic efficacy of a second enantiomeric natural product.