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Papers using QuB

Akyuz N, Altman RB, Blanchard SC, Boudker O. 2013.
Transport dynamics in a glutamate transporter homologue
Nature. 2013 Oct 3;502(7469):114-8. doi: 10.1038/nature12265.

Benndorf K, Thon S, Schulz E. 2013.
Unraveling subunit cooperativity in homotetrameric HCN2 channels
Biophys J. 2012 Nov 7;103(9):1860-9. doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2012.09.024.

Gupta S, Purohit P, Auerbach A. 2013.
Function of interfacial prolines at the transmitter-binding sites of the neuromuscular acetylcholine receptor
J Biol Chem. 2013 May 3;288(18):12667-79. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M112.443911.

Haghighat Jahromi A, Honda M, Zimmerman SC, Spies M. 2013.
Single-molecule study of the CUG repeat-MBNL1 interaction and its inhibition by small molecules
Nucleic Acids Res. 2013 Jul;41(13):6687-97. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkt330.

Harrington L, Cheley S, Alexander LT, Knapp S, Bayley H. 2013.
Stochastic detection of Pim protein kinases reveals electrostatically enhanced association of a peptide substrate
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013 Nov 19;110(47):E4417-26. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1312739110.

Helms N, Kowalski M, Illes P, Riedel T. 2013.
Agonist antagonist interactions at the rapidly desensitizing P2X3 receptor
PLoS One. 2013 Nov 1;8(11):e79213. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0079213.

Lewis R, Feetham CH, Gentles L, Penny J, Tregilgas L, Tohami W, Mobasheri A, Barrett-Jolley R. 2013.
Benzamil sensitive ion channels contribute to volume regulation in canine chondrocytes
Br J Pharmacol. 2013 Apr;168(7):1584-96. doi: 10.1111/j.1476-5381.2012.02185.x.

Maki BA, Cole R, Popescu GK. 2013.
Two serine residues on GluN2A C-terminal tails control NMDA receptor current decay times
Channels (Austin). 2013 Mar-Apr;7(2):126-32. doi: 10.4161/chan.23968.

Morales P, Garneau L, Klein H, Lavoie MF, Parent L, Sauvé R. 2013.
Contribution of the KCa3.1 channel-calmodulin interactions to the regulation of the KCa3.1 gating process
J Gen Physiol. 2013 Jul;142(1):37-60. doi: 10.1085/jgp.201210933.

Mukhtasimova N, Sine SM. 2013.
Nicotinic receptor transduction zone: invariant arginine couples to multiple electron-rich residues Biophys J. 2013 Jan 22;104(2):355-67. doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2012.12.013.

Nadin BM, Pfaffinger PJ. 2013.
A new TASK for Dipeptidyl Peptidase-like Protein 6
PLoS One. 2013 Apr 9;8(4):e60831. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060831.

Pfaffinger PJ. 2013.
A conserved pre-block interaction motif regulates potassium channel activation and N-type inactivation
PLoS One. 2013 Nov 13;8(11):e79891. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0079891

Posson DJ, McCoy JG, Nimigean CM. 2013.
The voltage-dependent gate in MthK potassium channels is located at the selectivity filter
Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2013 Feb;20(2):159-66. doi: 10.1038/nsmb.2473.

Purohit P, Auerbach A. 2013.
Loop C and the mechanism of acetylcholine receptor-channel gating
J Gen Physiol. 2013 Apr;141(4):467-78. doi: 10.1085/jgp.201210946.

Sikor M, Mapa K, von Voithenberg LV, Mokranjac D, Lamb DC. 2013.
Real-time observation of the conformational dynamics of mitochondrial Hsp70 by spFRET
EMBO J. 2013 May 29;32(11):1639-49. doi: 10.1038/emboj.2013.89.

Wang H, Schupp M, Zurborg S, Heppenstall PA. 2013.
Residues in the pore region of Drosophila transient receptor potential A1 dictate sensitivity to thermal stimuli
J Physiol. 2013 Jan 1;591(Pt 1):185-201. doi: 10.1113/jphysiol.2012.242842.

Wang W, Luo J, Hou P, Yang Y, Xiao F, Yuchi M, Qu A, Wang L, Ding J. 2013
Native gating behavior of ion channels in neurons with null-deviation modeling
PLoS One. 2013 Oct 25;8(10):e77105. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0077105.

Werry D, Eldstrom J, Wang Z, Fedida D. 2013
Single-channel basis for the slow activation of the repolarizing cardiac potassium current, I(Ks)
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013 Mar 12;110(11):E996-1005. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1214875110.

Zhang X, Ma L, Zhang Y. 2013
High-resolution optical tweezers for single-molecule manipulation
Yale J Biol Med. 2013 Sep 20;86(3):367-83.

Zheng J. 2013.
Molecular mechanism of TRP channels Compr Physiol. 2013 Jan;3(1):221-42. doi: 10.1002/cphy.c120001.


Gao Y, Zorman S, Gundersen G, Xi Z, Ma L, Sirinakis G, Rothman JE, Zhang Y. 2012.
Single reconstituted neuronal SNARE complexes zipper in three distinct stages
Science. 2012 Sep 14;337(6100):1340-3. doi: 10.1126/science.1224492.


EndNote Bibliography for citations below only: File:QuB Bibliography.enl


Amico-Ruvio, S.A., Meaghan A Paganelli, Jason M Myers, and Gabriela K Popescu. 2012.
Ifenprodil Effects on GluN2B-containing Glutamate Receptors
Mol Pharmacol. 82:1074-81


An, N., Aaron M. Fleming, Henry S. White1, and Cynthia J. Burrows. 2012.
Crown ether–electrolyte interactions permit nanopore detection of individual DNA abasic sites in single molecules
PNAS July 17, 2012 vol. 109 no. 29 11504-11509


Beyder, A., Strege, P. R., Reyes, S., Bernard, C. E., Terzic, A., Makielski, J., Ackerman, M. J., Farrugia, G. (2012),
Ranolazine Decreases Mechanosensitivity of the Voltage-Gated Sodium Ion Channel NaV1.5: A Novel Mechanism of Drug Action.
AHA journals: Circulation. 2012; 125: 2698-2706 doi: 10.1161/​CIRCULATIONAHA.112.094714.


Bhatt, J.M., Anand Prakash, Pratyush S Suryavanshi, and Shashank Manohar Dravid. 2012.
Effect of Ifenprodil on GluN1/GluN2B NMDA Receptor Gating
Mol Pharmacol. 83:9-21


Boersma, A. J., Brain, K. L., Bayley, H. (2012),
Real-Time Stochastic Detection of Multiple Neurotransmitters with a Protein Nanopore.
ACS Nano, Article ASAP, DOI: 10.1021/nn301125y.


Borschel, W.F., Jason M. Myers, Eileen M. Kasperek, Thomas P. Smith, Nicholas M. Graziane, Linda M. Nowak, and Gabriela K Popescu. 2012.
Gating Reaction Mechanism of Neuronal NMDA Receptors
J Neurophysiol. 108:3105-15


Chen, C., Greenberg, M.J., Laakso, J.M., Ostap, E.M., Goldman, Y.E., and Shuman, H. 2012.
Kinetic schemes for post-synchronized single molecule dynamics
Biophysical Journal 102 (6), pp. L23-L25


Chen, Q., Shu Diao and Chi Wu. 2012.
How does a supercoiled DNA chain pass through a small conical glass pore?
Soft Matter 8:5451-5458


Choi K-H, Licht S (2012)
ATP-Sensitive Potassium Channels Exhibit Variance in the Number of Open Channels below the Limit Predicted for Identical and Independent Gating.
PLoS ONE 7(5): e37399. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0037399


Cymes, G.D., and Grosman, C. 2012.
The unanticipated complexity of the selectivity-filter glutamates of nicotinic receptors
Nature Chemical Biology 8 (12), pp. 975-981


Fernández, J.A., Roman Skryma, Gabriel Bidaux, Karl L. Magleby, C. Norman Scholfield, J. Graham McGeown, Natalia Prevarskaya, and Alexander V. Zholos. 2012.
Short Isoforms of the Cold Receptor TRPM8 Inhibit Channel Gating by Mimicking Heat Action Rather than Chemical Inhibitors
J Biol Chem. 2012 January 27; 287(5): 2963–2970. Published online 2011 November 28. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M111.272823


Gimenez-Cassina, A., Martinez-Francois, J. R., Fisher, J. K., Szlyk, B., Polak, K., Wiwczar, J., Tanner, G. R., Lutas, A., Yellen, G., Danial, N. N. (2012),
BAD-Dependent Regulation of Fuel Metabolism and KATPChannel Activity Confers Resistance to Epileptic Seizures.
Neuron Volume 74, Issue 4, 24 May 2012, Pages 719–730.


Gottlieb, P.A., Chilman Bae and Frederick Sachs. 2012.
Gating the mechanical channel Piezo1: A comparison between whole-cell and patch recording
Channels (Austin). 2012 Jul-Aug;6(4):282-9. doi: 10.4161/chan.21064. Epub 2012 Jul 1


Hans, M., Wilhelm, M., Swandulla, D. (2012),
Menthol Suppresses Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Functioning in Sensory Neurons via Allosteric Modulation.
Chem. Senses (2012) doi: 10.1093/chemse/bjr128 First published online: January 25, 2012.

Jadey, S., and Anthony Auerbach. 2012.
An integrated catch-and-hold mechanism activates nicotinic acetylcholine receptors
J Gen Physiol. 2012 July; 140(1): 17–28. doi: 10.1085/jgp.201210801


Jerng HH, Pfaffinger PJ (2012)
Incorporation of DPP6a and DPP6K Variants in Ternary Kv4 Channel Complex Reconstitutes Properties of A-type K Current in Rat Cerebellar Granule Cells.
PLoS ONE 7(6): e38205. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0038205


Jha, A., Shaweta Gupta, Shoshanna N Zucker, and Anthony Auerbach. 2012.
The energetic consequences of loop 9 gating motions in acetylcholine receptor-channels
J Physiol. 2012 January 1; 590(Pt 1): 119–129. Published online 2011 October 24. doi: 10.1113/jphysiol.2011.213892


Jin, Q., Aaron M. Fleming, Cynthia J. Burrows, and Henry S. White. 2012.
Unzipping Kinetics of Duplex DNA Containing Oxidized Lesions in an α-Hemolysin Nanopore
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2012, 134 (26), pp 11006–11011


Kleene, N.K., and Steven J Kleene. 2012.
A method for measuring electrical signals in a primary cilium
Cilia 2012, 1:17


Liu, X., Tan, X., Yang, Y., Zeng, X., Tang, X. (2012),
Propofol increases the Ca2+ sensitivity of BKCa in the cerebral arterial smooth muscle cells of mice.
Acta Pharmacologica Sinica (2012) 33: 19–26; doi: 10.1038/aps.2011.134; published online 21 Nov 2011.


Maki, B.A., Teresa K. Aman, Stacy A. Amico-Ruvio, Cassandra L. Kussius, and Gabriela K. Popescu. 2012.
C-terminal Domains of N-Methyl-d-aspartic Acid Receptor Modulate Unitary Channel Conductance and Gating
J Biol Chem. 2012 October 19; 287(43): 36071–36080. Published online 2012 September 4. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M112.390013


McGuire, H., Mark R. P. Aurousseau, Derek Bowie, and Rikard Blunck. 2012
Automating single subunit counting of membrane proteins in mammalian cells
J Biol Chem. 2012 Oct 19;287(43):35912-21


McKinnon NK, Bali M, Akabas MH (2012)
Length and Amino Acid Sequence of Peptides Substituted for the 5-HT3A Receptor M3M4 Loop May Affect Channel Expression and Desensitization.
PLoS ONE 7(4): e35563. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0035563


McKay, B.E., Reza Tadayonnejad, Dustin M. Anderson, Jordan D. T. Engbers, Fernando R. Fernandez, Mircea Iftinca, and Ray W. Turner . 2012.
Establishing In Vivo-Like Activity in Rat Cerebellar Cells Maintained In Vitro
Isolated Central Nervous System Circuits Neuromethods Volume 73, 2012, pp 233-262


Mukherjee, S., N. Lowri Thomas, and Alan J. Williams. 2012.
A mechanistic description of gating of the human cardiac ryanodine receptor in a regulated minimal environment
J Gen Physiol. 2012 August; 140(2): 139–158. doi: 10.1085/jgp.201110706


Murthy, S.E., Tamer Shogan, Jessica C. Page, Eileen M. Kasperek, and Gabriela K. Popescu. 2012.
Probing the activation sequence of NMDA receptors with lurcher mutations
JGP vol. 140 no. 3 267-277


Nayak, T., Purohit, P. G., Auerbach, A. (2012)
The intrinsic energy of the gating isomerization of a neuromuscular acetylcholine receptor channel.
JGP vol. 139 no. 5 349-358.


Popescu, G.K. 2012.
Modes of glutamate receptor gating
J Physiol. 2012 January 1; 590(Pt 1): 73–91. Published online 2011 November 21. doi: 10.1113/jphysiol.2011.223750


Posson, D.J., Jason G McCoy, and Crina M Nimigean. 2013.
The voltage-dependent gate in MthK potassium channels is located at the selectivity filter
Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 20:159–166


Pressé, S., Julian Lee, and Ken A. Dill. 2012.
Extracting Conformational Memory from Single-Molecule Kinetic Data
J. Phys. Chem. B, 2013, 117 (2), pp 495–502 DOI: 10.1021/jp309420u


Radicke, S., T. Riedel, D. Cotella, K. Turnow, U. Ravens, M. Schaefer, and E. Wettwer. 2012.
Accessory subunits alter the temperature sensitivity of Kv4.3 channel complexes
Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology Volume 56, March 2013, Pages 8–18


Raillon, C., P. Granjon, M. Graf, L. J. Steinbock and A. Radenovic. 2012.
Fast and automatic processing of multi-level events in nanopore translocation experiments
Nanoscale, 2012,4, 4916-4924


Riedel, T., Weise, S., Leichsenring, A., Illes, P. (2012),
Effects of Nucleotide Analogues at the P2X3 Receptor and its Mutants Identify the Agonist Binding Pouch.
Molecular Pharmacology April 11, 2012 mol.112.077818.


Rotem, D., Lakmal Jayasinghe, Maria Salichou, and Hagan Bayley. 2012.
Protein Detection by Nanopores Equipped with Aptamers
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2012, 134 (5), pp 2781–2787


Santos, J.S., Guillermo A. Asmar-Rovira, Gye Won Han, Wei Liu, Ruhma Syeda, Vadim Cherezov, Kent A. Baker, Raymond C. Stevens and Mauricio Montal. 2012.
Crystal Structure of a Voltage-gated K+ Channel Pore Module in a Closed State in Lipid Membranes
December 14, 2012 The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 287, 43063-43070.


Shen, X-M., Joan M. Brengman, Steven M. Sine, and Andrew G. Engel. 2012.
Myasthenic syndrome AChRα C-loop mutant disrupts initiation of channel gating
J Clin Invest. 2012 July 2; 122(7): 2613–2621. Published online 2012 June 25. doi: 10.1172/JCI63415


Siekmann, I., James Sneyd, and Edmund J. Crampin. 2012.
MCMC Can Detect Nonidentifiable Models
Biophysical Journal Volume 103, Issue 11, 5 December 2012, Pages 2275–2286


Siekmann, I., Larry E. Wagner, II, David Yule, Edmund J. Crampin, and James Sneyd. 2012.
A Kinetic Model for Type I and II IP3R Accounting for Mode Changes
Biophys J. 2012 August 22; 103(4): 658–668. doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2012.07.016


Sine, S.M. 2012.
END-PLATE ACETYLCHOLINE RECEPTOR: STRUCTURE, MECHANISM, PHARMACOLOGY, AND DISEASE
Physiol Rev. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2012 November 5. Published in final edited form as: Physiol Rev. 2012 July; 92(3): 1189–1234. doi: 10.1152/physrev.00015.2011


Stelmashenko. O., Ulyana Lalo, Yue Yang, Laricia Bragg, R. Alan North, and Vincent Compan. 2012.
Activation of Trimeric P2X2 Receptors by Fewer than Three ATP Molecules
Molecular Pharmacology October 2012 vol. 82 no. 4 760-766


Syeda, R., Jose S. Santos, Mauricio Montal, and Hagan Bayley. 2012.
Tetrameric assembly of KvLm K+ channels with defined numbers of voltage sensors
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 October 16; 109(42): 16917-16922. Published online 2012 September 27. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1205592109


Tomaiuolo, M., Richard Bertram, Gareth Leng, and Joël Tabak. 2012.
Models of Electrical Activity: Calibration and Prediction Testing on the Same Cell
Biophysical Journal Volume 103, Issue 9, 7 November 2012, Pages 2021–2032


Thomas, N.L., and Alan J. Williams. 2012.
Pharmacology of ryanodine receptors and Ca2+-induced Ca2+ release
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Membrane Transport and Signaling Volume 1, Issue 4, pages 383–397, July/August 2012


Ullah, G., Don-On Daniel Mak, and John E. Pearson. 2012.
A data-driven model of a modal gated ion channel: The inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor in insect Sf9 cells
J Gen Physiol. 2012 August; 140(2): 159–173. doi: 10.1085/jgp.201110753


Vais, H., J.K. Foskett, Ullah, G., Pearson, J.E., Mak, D.D. 2012.
Permeant calcium ion feed-through regulation of single inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor channel gating
Journal of General Physiology 140 (6), pp. 697-716


Vance, K.M., Kasper B Hansen, and Stephen F Traynelis. 2012.
GluN1 splice variant control of GluN1/GluN2D NMDA receptors
J Physiol. 2012 August 15; 590(Pt 16): 3857–3875. Published online 2012 May 28. doi: 10.1113/jphysiol.2012.234062


Wang, W., Feng Xiao, Xuhui Zeng, Jing Yao, Ming Yuchi, and Jiuping Ding. 2012.
Optimal Estimation of Ion-Channel Kinetics from Macroscopic Currents
PLoS One. 2012; 7(4): e35208. Published online 2012 April 20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0035208


Webster, R., Maxwell, S., Spearman, H., Tai, K., Beckstein, O., Sansom, M., Beeson, D. (2012),
A novel congenital myasthenic syndrome due to decreased acetylcholine receptor ion-channel conductance.
Brain (2012) doi: 10.1093/brain/aws016 First published online: March 1, 2012.


Xi, Z., Gao, Y., Sirinakis, G., Guo, H., and Zhang, Y. 2012.
Single-molecule observation of helix staggering, sliding, and coiled coil misfolding
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 109 (15), pp. 5711-5716


Yang, J., and John E. Pearson. 2012.
Origins of concentration dependence of waiting times for single-molecule fluorescence binding
J Chem Phys. 2012 June 28; 136(24): 244506. Published online 2012 June 27. doi: 10.1063/1.4729947



Asandei, A., Apetrei, A. and Luchian, T. (2011),
Uni-molecular detection and quantification of selected β-lactam antibiotics with a hybrid α-hemolysin protein pore.
J. Mol. Recognit., 24: 199–207. doi: 10.1002/jmr.1038


Bae, C., Sachs, F., Gottlieb, P. A. (2011),
The Mechanosensitive Ion Channel Piezo1 Is Inhibited by the Peptide GsMTx4.
Biochemistry, 2011, 50 (29), pp 6295–6300.


Barnett, W. and Cymbalyuk, G. (2011)
Hybrid Systems Analysis: Real-Time Systems for Design and Prototyping of Neural Interfaces and Prostheses,
in Biohybrid Systems: Nerves, Interfaces, and Machines (ed R. Jung), Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany. doi: 10.1002/9783527639366.ch7


Bodnar, M., Wang, H., Riedel, T., Hintze, S., Kato, E., Fallah, G., Groger-Arndt, H., Giniatullin, R., Grohmann, M., Hausmann, R., Schmalzing, G., Illes, P., Rubini, P. (2011),
Amino Acid Residues Constituting the Agonist Binding Site of the Human P2X3 Receptor.
The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 286, 2739-2749.


Borschel, W. F., Murthy, S. E., Kasperek, E. M., Popescu, G. K. (2011),
NMDA receptor activation requires remodelling of intersubunit contacts within ligand-binding heterodimers.
Nature Communications 2:498 doi:10.1038/ncomms1512.


Corradi, J., Andersen, N., Bouzat, C. (2011),
A Novel Mechanism of Modulation of 5-HT3A Receptors by Hydrocortisone.
Biophys J. 2011 January 5; 100(1): 42–51. doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2010.10.046.


Csanady, L., Vergani, P., Gulyas-Kovacs, A., Gadsby, D. C. (2011),
Electrophysiological, Biochemical, and Bioinformatic Methods for Studying CFTR Channel Gating and Its Regulation.
Methods in Molecular Biology, 2011, Volume 741, Part 5, 443-469, DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-117-8_28.


Cymes, G. D. and Grosman, C. (2011),
Estimating the pKa values of basic and acidic side chains in ion channels using electrophysiological recordings: A robust approach to an elusive problem.
Proteins, 79: 3485–3493. doi: 10.1002/prot.23087


de Zoysa, R. S. S., Krishantha, D. M. M., Zhao, Q., Gupta, J. and Guan, X. (2011),
Translocation of single-stranded DNA through the α-hemolysin protein nanopore in acidic solutions.
ELECTROPHORESIS, 32: 3034–3041. doi: 10.1002/elps.201100216


El Karim, I. A., Linden, G. J., Curtis, T. M., About, I., McGahon, M. K., Irwin, C. R., Lundy, F. T. (2011),
Human odontoblasts express functional thermo-sensitive TRP channels: Implications for dentin sensitivity.
Pain Volume 152, Issue 10, October 2011, Pages 2211–2223


Fernandez, J. A., Skryma, R., Bidaux, G., Magleby, K. L., Scholfield, C. N., McGeown, J. G., Preverskaya, N., Zholos, A. V. (2011),
Voltage- and cold-dependent gating of single TRPM8 ion channels.
JGP vol. 137 no. 2 173-195.


Gupta, S., Auerbach, A. (2011),
Mapping Heat Exchange in an Allosteric Protein.
Biophys J. 2011 February 16; 100(4): 904–911. doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2010.12.3739.


Hooper, R. and Prinz, A. A. (2011)
Dynamic Clamp in Biomimetic and Biohybrid Living-Hardware Systems,
in Biohybrid Systems: Nerves, Interfaces, and Machines (ed R. Jung), Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany. doi: 10.1002/9783527639366.ch5


Jones, P. L., Pask, G. M., Rinker, D. C., Zweibel, L. J. (2011),
Functional agonism of insect odorant receptor ion channels.
PNAS May 24, 2011 vol. 108 no. 21 8821-8825.


Laube, M., Kuppers, E., Thome, U. H. (2011),
Modulation of Sodium Transport in Alveolar Epithelial Cells by Estradiol and Progesterone.
Pediatric Research (2011) 69, 200–205; doi:10.1203/PDR.0b013e3182070ec8.


Li, P., McCollum, M., Bracamontes, J., Steinbach, J. H., Akk, G. (2011),
Functional Characterization of the α5(Asn398) Variant Associated with Risk for Nicotine Dependence in the α3β4α5 Nicotinic Receptor.
Molecular Pharmacology November 2011 vol. 80 no. 5 818-827.


Li, P., Ann, J. and Akk, G. (2011),
Activation and modulation of human α4β2 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors by the neonicotinoids clothianidin and imidacloprid.
J. Neurosci. Res., 89: 1295–1301. doi: 10.1002/jnr.22644


Li, W., Aldrich, R. W. (2011),
Electrostatic influences of charged inner pore residues on the conductance and gating of small conductance Ca2+ activated K+ channels.
PNAS April 12, 2011 vol. 108 no. 15 5946-5953.


O'Toole, K. K., Jenkins, A. (2011),
Discrete M3-M4 Intracellular Loop Subdomains Control Specific Aspects of γ-Aminobutyric Acid Type A Receptor Function.
The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 286, 37990-37999.


Poon, K., Ahmed, A. H., Nowak, L. M., Oswald, R. E. (2011),
Mechanisms of Modal Activation of GluA3 Receptors.
Molecular Pharmacology July 2011 vol. 80 no. 1 49-59.


Purohit, P., Auerbach, A. (2011),
Glycine Hinges with Opposing Actions at the Acetylcholine Receptor-Channel Transmitter Binding Site.
Molecular Pharmacology March 2011 vol. 79 no. 3 351-359.


Sattigeri, P.S., Ramamurthy, K.N., Thiagarajan, J.J., Goryll, M., Spanias, A., Thornton, T. (2011),
Analyte detection using an ion-channel sensor array.
Digital Signal Processing (DSP), 2011 17th International in Proc SSPD 2011.


Siekmann, I., Wagner II, L. E., Yule, D., Fox, C., Bryant, D., Crampin, E. J., Sneyd, J. (2011),
MCMC Estimation of Markov Models for Ion Channels.
Biophysical Journal Volume 100, Issue 8, 20 April 2011, Pages 1919–1929.


So, E. C., Wu, K. C., Liang, C., Chen, J., Wu, S. (2011),
Evidence for activation of BKCachannels by a known inhibitor of focal adhesion kinase, PF573228.
Life Sciences Volume 89, Issues 19–20, 7 November 2011, Pages 691–701.


Sung, R. J., Lo, C., Hsiao, P. Y., Tien, H. (2011),
Targeting intracellular calcium cycling in catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia: a theoretical investigation.
AJP - Heart October 1, 2011 vol. 301 no. 4 H1625-H1638.


Tabak, J., Tomaiuolo, M., Gonzalez-Iglesias, A. E., Milescu, L. S., Bertram, R. (2011),
Fast-Activating Voltage- and Calcium-Dependent Potassium (BK) Conductance Promotes Bursting in Pituitary Cells: A Dynamic Clamp Study.
The Journal of Neuroscience, 16 November 2011, 31(46): 16855-16863; doi: 10.1523/​JNEUROSCI.3235-11.2011.


Talukder, I., Wollmuth, L. P. (2011),
Local constraints in either the GluN1 or GluN2 subunit equally impair NMDA receptor pore opening.
JGP vol. 138 no. 2 179-194.


Tan, X., Yang, Y., Cheng, J., Li, P., Inoue, I., Zeng, X. (2011),
Unique action of sodium tanshinone II-A sulfonate (DS-201) on the Ca2+ dependent BKCa activation in mouse cerebral arterial smooth muscle cells.
European Journal of Pharmacology Volume 656, Issues 1–3, 10 April 2011, Pages 27–32.


Tripathi, P. K., Cardenas, C. G., Cardenas, C. A., Scroggs, R. S. (2011),
Up-regulation of tetrodotoxin-sensitive sodium currents by prostaglandin E2 in type-4 rat dorsal root ganglion cells.
Neuroscience Volume 185, 30 June 2011, Pages 14–26.



Beyder, A., Rae, J. L., Bernard, C., Strege, P. R., Sachs, F., Farrugia, G. (2010),
Mechanosensitivity of Nav1.5, a voltage-sensitive sodium channel.
The Journal of Physiology Volume 588, Issue 24, pages 4969–4985, December 2010.


Blanco, M., Walter, N. G. (2010),
Analysis of Complex Single-Molecule FRET Time Trajectories.
Methods in Enzymology Volume 472, 2010, Pages 153–178.


Bruhova, I., Auerbach, A. (2010),
Subunit Symmetry at the Extracellular Domain-Transmembrane Domain Interface in Acetylcholine Receptor Channel Gating.
The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 285, 38898-38904.


Cadugan, D. J., Auerbach, A. (2010),
Linking the Acetylcholine Receptor-Channel Agonist-Binding Sites with the Gate.
Biophysical Journal Volume 99, Issue 3, 4 August 2010, Pages 798–807.


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