Calmodulin regulation (calmodulation) of voltage-gated calcium channels

M Ben-Johny, DT Yue - Journal of General Physiology, 2014 - rupress.org
Calmodulin regulation (calmodulation) of the family of voltage-gated CaV1-2 channels
comprises a prominent prototype for ion channel regulation, remarkable for its powerful …

Voltage-gated calcium channels: key players in sensory coding in the retina and the inner ear

T Pangrsic, JH Singer, A Koschak - Physiological reviews, 2018 - journals.physiology.org
Calcium influx through voltage-gated Ca (CaV) channels is the first step in synaptic
transmission. This review concerns CaV channels at ribbon synapses in primary sense …

Calmodulation meta-analysis: predicting calmodulin binding via canonical motif clustering

K Mruk, BM Farley, AW Ritacco… - Journal of General …, 2014 - rupress.org
The calcium-binding protein calmodulin (CaM) directly binds to membrane transport proteins
to modulate their function in response to changes in intracellular calcium concentrations …

Arabidopsis calmodulin‐like proteins CML13 and CML14 interact with proteins that have IQ domains

HJ Teresinski, B Hau, K Symonds… - Plant, Cell & …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In response to Ca2+ signals, the evolutionarily‐conserved Ca2+ sensor calmodulin (CaM)
regulates protein targets via direct interaction. Plants possess many CaM‐like (CML) …

Physiology and evolution of voltage-gated calcium channels in early diverging animal phyla: Cnidaria, Placozoa, Porifera and Ctenophora

A Senatore, H Raiss, P Le - Frontiers in physiology, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Voltage-gated calcium (Cav) channels serve dual roles in the cell, where they can both
depolarize the membrane potential for electrical excitability, and activate transient …

Redefining the BH3 death domain as a 'short linear motif'

A Aouacheria, C Combet, P Tompa… - Trends in biochemical …, 2015 - cell.com
B cell lymphoma-2 (BCL-2)-related proteins control programmed cell death through a
complex network of protein–protein interactions mediated by BCL-2 homology 3 (BH3) …

Towards a unified theory of calmodulin regulation (calmodulation) of voltage-gated calcium and sodium channels

M Ben-Johny, IE Dick, L Sang… - Current molecular …, 2015 - ingentaconnect.com
Voltage-gated Na and Ca2+ channels represent two major ion channel families that enable
myriad biological functions including the generation of action potentials and the coupling of …

Structure-function of proteins interacting with the α1 pore-forming subunit of high-voltage-activated calcium channels

A Neely, P Hidalgo - Frontiers in physiology, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Openings of high-voltage-activated (HVA) calcium channels lead to a transient increase in
calcium concentration that in turn activate a plethora of cellular functions, including muscle …

Apoptotic-like PCD inducing HRC gene when silenced enhances multiple disease resistance in plants

AC Kushalappa, NG Hegde, R Gunnaiah, A Sathe… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Programmed cell death (PCD) plays an important role in plant environmental stress and has
the potential to be manipulated to enhance disease resistance. Plants have innate immunity …

Eukaryotic voltage-gated sodium channels: on their origins, asymmetries, losses, diversification and adaptations

JE Fux, A Mehta, J Moffat, JD Spafford - Frontiers in Physiology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The appearance of voltage-gated, sodium-selective channels with rapid gating kinetics was
a limiting factor in the evolution of nervous systems. Two rounds of domain duplications …