KLF15 and Arrhythmia: In functional assays using a dual-luciferase assay system, mutant KLF15 showed neither transcriptional activation of the KChIP2 promoter nor transcriptional inhibition of the CTGF promoter, alone or in the presence of TGFB1, a key player in the pathogenesis of arrhythmias and cardiomyopathies.