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Shellfish Toxins Targeting Voltage-Gated Sodium Channels

Marine Drugs, 2013
Voltage-gated sodium channels (VGSCs) play a central role in the generation and propagation of action potentials in excitable neurons and other cells and are targeted by commonly used local anesthetics, antiarrhythmics, and anticonvulsants. They are also
Fan Zhang, Xunxun Xu, Tingting Li, Zhonghua Liu   +3 more
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Fast-slow asymptotics for a Markov chain model of fast sodium current [PDF]

, 2017
We explore the feasibility of using fast-slow asymptotic to eliminate the computational stiffness of the discrete-state, continuous-time deterministic Markov chain models of ionic channels underlying cardiac excitability. We focus on a Markov chain model
Biktashev, V. N., Stary, T.
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A Cre‐dependent lentiviral vector for neuron subtype‐specific expression of large proteins

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
We designed a versatile and modular lentivector comprising a Cre‐dependent switch and self‐cleaving 2A peptide and tested it for co‐expression of GFP and a 2.8 kb gene of interest (GOI) in mouse cortical parvalbumin (PV+) interneurons and midbrain dopamine (TH+) neurons.
Weixuan Xue, Sandrine Picaud, Régine Hepp, Stéphanie Pons, Uwe Maskos, Bertrand Lambolez, Ludovic Tricoire   +6 more
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Neurotoxins and their binding areas on voltage-gated sodium channels

Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2011
Voltage-gated Sodium Channels (VGSCs) are large transmembrane proteins that conduct sodium ions across the membrane and by doing so they generate signals of communication between many kinds of tissues.
Marijke eStevens, Steve ePeigneur, Jan eTytgat   +2 more
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Structural insights into lacto‐N‐biose I recognition by a family 32 carbohydrate‐binding module from Bifidobacterium bifidum

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Bifidobacterium bifidum establishes symbiosis with infants by metabolizing lacto‐N‐biose I (LNB) from human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs). The extracellular multidomain enzyme LnbB drives this process, releasing LNB via its catalytic glycoside hydrolase family 20 (GH20) lacto‐N‐biosidase domain.
Xinzhe Zhang, Naoki Sunagawa, Toma Kashima, Kiyohiko Igarashi, Akimasa Miyanaga, Shinya Fushinobu   +5 more
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Recent advances in our understanding of the structure and function of more unusual cation channels. [PDF]

, 2019
As their name implies, cation channels allow the regulated flow of cations such as sodium, potassium, calcium, and magnesium across cellular and intracellular membranes.
Brown, Brandon M, Nguyen, Hai M, Wulff, Heike   +2 more
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Electrostatic Contributions of Aromatic Residues in the Local Anesthetic Receptor of Voltage-Gated Sodium Channels [PDF]

, 2008
Antiarrhythmics, anticonvulsants, and local anesthetics target voltage-gated sodium channels, decreasing excitability of nerve and muscle cells. Channel inhibition by members of this family of cationic, hydrophobic drugs relies on the presence of highly ...
Ahern, Christopher A., Dougherty, Dennis A., Eastwood, Amy L., Horn, Richard   +3 more
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Molecular bases of circadian magnesium rhythms across eukaryotes

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Circadian rhythms in intracellular [Mg2+] exist across eukaryotic kingdoms. Central roles for Mg2+ in metabolism suggest that Mg2+ rhythms could regulate daily cellular energy and metabolism. In this Perspective paper, we propose that ancestral prokaryotic transport proteins could be responsible for mediating Mg2+ rhythms and posit a feedback model ...
Helen K. Feord, Gerben van Ooijen
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Variants in the SCN5A Promoter Associated With Various Arrhythmia Phenotypes

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2016
Background Mutations in the coding sequence of SCN5A, which encodes the cardiac Na+ channel α subunit, have been associated with inherited susceptibility to various arrhythmias.
Nobue Yagihara, Hiroshi Watanabe, Phil Barnett, Laetitia Duboscq‐Bidot, Atack C. Thomas, Ping Yang, Seiko Ohno, Kanae Hasegawa, Ryozo Kuwano, Stéphanie Chatel, Richard Redon, Jean‐Jacques Schott, Vincent Probst, Tamara T. Koopmann, Connie R. Bezzina, Arthur A. M. Wilde, Yukiko Nakano, Takeshi Aiba, Yoshihiro Miyamoto, Shiro Kamakura, Dawood Darbar, Brian S. Donahue, Daichi Shigemizu, Toshihiro Tanaka, Tatsuhiko Tsunoda, Masayoshi Suda, Akinori Sato, Tohru Minamino, Naoto Endo, Wataru Shimizu, Minoru Horie, Dan M. Roden, Naomasa Makita   +32 more
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Substrate specificity of Burkholderia pseudomallei multidrug transporters is influenced by the hydrophilic patch in the substrate‐binding pocket

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Multidrug transporters BpeB and BpeF from the Gram‐negative pathogen Burkholderia pseudomallei have a hydrophilic patch in their substrate‐binding pocket. Drug susceptibility tests and growth curve analyses using an Escherichia coli recombinant expression system revealed that the hydrophilic patches of BpeB and BpeF are involved in the substrate ...
Ui Okada, Satoshi Murakami
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