“…It has been recognized that sympathetic activation related to physical or emotional stress can exacerbate cardiac events in patients with LQTS (Wilde et al, 1999;Schwartz et al, 2001;Winter et al, 2018). To that end, PKC is under investigation as a potential link between stress conditions and reduced hERG function; however, controversial effects of PKC on hERG function have been reported (Thomas et al, 2003;Cockerill et al, 2007;Wang et al, 2008Wang et al, , 2009Wang et al, , 2014Chen et al, 2010;Krishnan et al, 2012;Liu et al, 2017). By investigating the effects of PKC activation on both hERG current and expression on a time scale ranging from minutes to hours, our data, for the first time, uncovered that PKC differentially regulates hERG protein expression and function; PKC activation chronically enhances channel expression (hours) through delaying channel degradation while inhibiting channel function with a faster time course (tens of minutes) through a mechanism that involves the N terminus of the channel.…”