| Functional interactions between presynaptic calcium channels and the neurotransmitter release machinery JD Spafford, GW Zamponi Current opinion in neurobiology 13 (3), 308-314, 2003 | 156 | 2003 |
| Calcium channel structural determinants of synaptic transmission between identified invertebrate neurons JD Spafford, DW Munno, P Van Nierop, ZP Feng, SE Jarvis, WJ Gallin, ... Journal of Biological Chemistry 278 (6), 4258-4267, 2003 | 124 | 2003 |
| Determinants of inhibition of transiently expressed voltage-gated calcium channels by ω-conotoxins GVIA and MVIIA ZP Feng, CJ Doering, RJ Winkfein, AM Beedle, JD Spafford, GW Zamponi Journal of Biological Chemistry 278 (22), 20171-20178, 2003 | 120 | 2003 |
| Neonatal STZ model of type II diabetes mellitus in the Fischer 344 rat: characteristics and assessment of the status of the hepatic adrenergic receptors SJ Hemmings, D Spafford The international journal of biochemistry & cell biology 32 (8), 905-919, 2000 | 84 | 2000 |
| Identification and functional expression of a family of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunits in the central nervous system of the mollusc Lymnaea stagnalis P van Nierop, S Bertrand, DW Munno, Y Gouwenberg, J van Minnen, ... Journal of Biological Chemistry 281 (3), 1680-1691, 2006 | 82 | 2006 |
| Selectivity filters and cysteine-rich extracellular loops in voltage-gated sodium, calcium, and NALCN channels RF Stephens, W Guan, BS Zhorov, JD Spafford Frontiers in physiology 6, 153, 2015 | 64 | 2015 |
| Calcium-triggered membrane fusion proceeds independently of specific presynaptic proteins JA Szule, SE Jarvis, JE Hibbert, JD Spafford, JEA Braun, GW Zamponi, ... Journal of Biological Chemistry 278 (27), 24251-24254, 2003 | 62 | 2003 |
| In vitro characterization of L-type calcium channels and their contribution to firing behavior in invertebrate respiratory neurons JD Spafford, T Dunn, AB Smit, NI Syed, GW Zamponi Journal of neurophysiology 95 (1), 42-52, 2006 | 60 | 2006 |
| NALCN ion channels have alternative selectivity filters resembling calcium channels or sodium channels A Senatore, A Monteil, J van Minnen, AB Smit, JD Spafford PLoS One 8 (1), e55088, 2013 | 55 | 2013 |
| The calmodulin-binding, short linear motif, NSCaTE is conserved in L-type channel ancestors of vertebrate Cav1. 2 and Cav1. 3 channels V Taiakina, AN Boone, J Fux, A Senatore, D Weber-Adrian, ... PloS one 8 (4), e61765, 2013 | 53 | 2013 |
| Expression and modulation of an invertebrate presynaptic calcium channel α1 subunit homolog JD Spafford, L Chen, ZP Feng, AB Smit, GW Zamponi Journal of Biological Chemistry 278 (23), 21178-21187, 2003 | 51 | 2003 |
| Transient and big are key features of an invertebrate T-type channel (LCav3) from the central nervous system of Lymnaea stagnalis A Senatore, JD Spafford Journal of Biological Chemistry 285 (10), 7447-7458, 2010 | 49 | 2010 |
| PKC-induced intracellular trafficking of Cav2 precedes its rapid recruitment to the plasma membrane Y Zhang, JS Helm, A Senatore, JD Spafford, LK Kaczmarek, EA Jonas Journal of Neuroscience 28 (10), 2601-2612, 2008 | 47 | 2008 |
| Cav3 T‐type calcium channels A Senatore, BS Zhorov, JD Spafford Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Membrane Transport and Signaling 1 (4), 467-491, 2012 | 42 | 2012 |
| A putative voltage-gated sodium channel α subunit (PpSCN1) from the hydrozoan jellyfish, Polyorchis penicillatus: structural comparisons and evolutionary considerations JD Spafford, AN Spencer, WJ Gallin Biochemical and biophysical research communications 244 (3), 772-780, 1998 | 41 | 1998 |
| Gene transcription and splicing of T-type channels are evolutionarily-conserved strategies for regulating channel expression and gating A Senatore, JD Spafford PloS one 7 (6), e37409, 2012 | 39 | 2012 |
| Eukaryotic voltage-gated sodium channels: on their origins, asymmetries, losses, diversification and adaptations JE Fux, A Mehta, J Moffat, JD Spafford Frontiers in Physiology 9, 1406, 2018 | 37 | 2018 |
| T-type channels become highly permeable to sodium ions using an alternative extracellular turret region (S5-P) Outside the selectivity filter*♦ A Senatore, W Guan, AN Boone, JD Spafford Journal of Biological Chemistry 289 (17), 11952-11969, 2014 | 37 | 2014 |
| Genomic organization of a voltage-gated Na+ channel in a hydrozoan jellyfish: insights into the evolution of voltage-gated Na+ channel genes. JD Spafford, AN Spencer, WJ Gallin Receptors & channels 6 (6), 493-506, 1999 | 37 | 1999 |
| Cav3 T-type channels: regulators for gating, membrane expression, and cation selectivity A Senatore, W Guan, JD Spafford Pflügers Archiv-European Journal of Physiology 466, 645-660, 2014 | 36 | 2014 |
