Ca2+ channels and praziquantel: a view from the free world

JD Chan, M Zarowiecki, JS Marchant - Parasitology international, 2013 - Elsevier
Targeting the cellular Ca 2+ channels and pumps that underpin parasite Ca 2+ homeostasis
may realize novel antihelmintic agents. Indeed, the antischistosomal drug praziquantel …

The surge of flavonoids as novel, fine regulators of cardiovascular Cav channels

F Fusi, O Spiga, A Trezza, G Sgaragli… - European journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Ion channels underlie a wide variety of physiological processes that involve rapid changes
in cell dynamics, such as cardiac and vascular smooth muscle contraction. Overexpression …

In vivo neuromodulation of animal behavior with organic semiconducting oligomers

G Tommasini, M De Simone, S Santillo, G Dufil… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Modulating neural activity with electrical or chemical stimulus can be used for fundamental
and applied research. Typically, neuronal stimulation is performed with intracellular and …

Binding mechanism investigations guiding the synthesis of novel condensed 1, 4-dihydropyridine derivatives with L-/T-type calcium channel blocking activity

D Schaller, MG Gündüz, FX Zhang, GW Zamponi… - European journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Nifedipine and isradipine are prominent examples of calcium channel blockers with a 1, 4-
dihydropyridine (DHP) scaffold. Although successfully used in clinics since decades for the …

[HTML][HTML] Control of low-threshold exocytosis by T-type calcium channels

N Weiss, GW Zamponi - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) …, 2013 - Elsevier
Low-voltage-activated (LVA) T-type Ca2+ channels differ from their high-voltage-activated
(HVA) homologues by unique biophysical properties. Hence, whereas HVA channels …

Molecular nature of voltage‐gated calcium channels: structure and species comparison

JR Tyson, TP Snutch - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The progression from one to three to 10, and in some instances more, voltage‐gated
calcium channels within living organisms during the course of evolution has paralleled the …

[HTML][HTML] Divergent Ca2+/calmodulin feedback regulation of CaV1 and CaV2 voltage-gated calcium channels evolved in the common ancestor of Placozoa and …

J Gauberg, W Elkhatib, CL Smith, A Singh… - Journal of Biological …, 2022 - ASBMB
Ca V 1 and Ca V 2 voltage-gated calcium channels evolved from an ancestral Ca V 1/2
channel via gene duplication somewhere near the stem animal lineage. The divergence of …

[HTML][HTML] NALCN ion channels have alternative selectivity filters resembling calcium channels or sodium channels

A Senatore, A Monteil, J van Minnen, AB Smit… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
NALCN is a member of the family of ion channels with four homologous, repeat domains that
include voltage-gated calcium and sodium channels. NALCN is a highly conserved gene …

[HTML][HTML] 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… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
NSCaTE is a short linear motif of (x W xxx (I or L) xxxx), composed of residues with a high
helix-forming propensity within a mostly disordered N-terminus that is conserved in L-type …

Evolution of excitation-contraction coupling

JJ Mackrill, HA Shiels - Calcium Signaling, 2020 - Springer
In mammalian cardiomyocytes, Ca 2+ influx through L-type voltage-gated Ca 2+ channels
(VGCCs) is amplified by release of Ca 2+ via type 2 ryanodine receptors (RyR2) in the …