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 …

Selectivity filters and cysteine-rich extracellular loops in voltage-gated sodium, calcium, and NALCN channels

RF Stephens, W Guan, BS Zhorov… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
How nature discriminates sodium from calcium ions in eukaryotic channels has been difficult
to resolve because they contain four homologous, but markedly different repeat domains …

Toxicity of antimony to Daphnia magna: influence of environmental factors, development of biotic ligand approach and biochemical response at environmental …

Y Li, H Li, R Zhang, X Bing - Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2024 - Elsevier
Acute toxicity of antimony pentavalent to neonatal Daphnia magna and the influence of
water quality parameters were investigated, and enzymatic activities of organisms at …

CaV1.3 L-type Ca2+ channel contributes to the heartbeat by generating a dihydropyridine-sensitive persistent Na+ current

F Toyoda, P Mesirca, S Dubel, WG Ding, J Striessnig… - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
The spontaneous activity of sinoatrial node (SAN) pacemaker cells is generated by a
functional interplay between the activity of ionic currents of the plasma membrane and …

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 …

Evolutionary insights into T-type Ca2+ channel structure, function, and ion selectivity from the Trichoplax adhaerens homologue

CL Smith, S Abdallah, YY Wong, P Le… - Journal of General …, 2017 - rupress.org
Four-domain voltage-gated Ca2+ (Cav) channels play fundamental roles in the nervous
system, but little is known about when or how their unique properties and cellular roles …

Diversity and evolution of four-domain voltage-gated cation channels of eukaryotes and their ancestral functional determinants

I Pozdnyakov, O Matantseva, S Skarlato - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Four-domain voltage-gated cation channels (FVCCs) represent a large family of pseudo-
tetrameric ion channels which includes voltage-gated calcium (Cav) and sodium (Nav) …

Deciphering the underlying mechanisms of the pharyngeal pumping motions in Caenorhabditis elegans

D Sherman, D Harel - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
The pharynx of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans is a neuromuscular organ that
exhibits typical pumping motions, which result in the intake of food particles from the …

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

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 …

Acute dysprosium toxicity to Daphnia pulex and Hyalella azteca and development of the biotic ligand approach

O Vukov, DS Smith, JC McGeer - Aquatic Toxicology, 2016 - Elsevier
The toxicological understanding of rare earth elements (REEs) in the aquatic environment is
very limited but of increasing concern. The objective of this research is to compare the …