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ReviewNeuroscience research2011

Excitation-transcription coupling in sympathetic neurons and the molecular mechanism of its initiation.

Huan Ma, Rachel D Groth, Damian G Wheeler, Curtis F Barrett, Richard W Tsien

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Review in Neuroscience research, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 25% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed, 43 citations in OpenAlex.

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  12. Mitochondrial fusion dynamics is robust in the heart and depends on calcium oscillations and contractile activity.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2017
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  16. Evolutionary and functional perspectives on signaling from neuronal surface to nucleus.Biochemical and biophysical research communications · 2015
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  17. Salt and gene expression: evidence for [Na+]i/[K+]i-mediated signaling pathways.Pflugers Archiv : European journal of physiology · 2015
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Huan MaDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305-5345, USA.
Rachel D Groth
Damian G Wheeler
Curtis F Barrett
Richard W Tsien
Stanford University · US

Funding

NEURONAL FUNCTIONS OF MULTIPLE TYPES OF CALCIUM CHANNELSR01NS024067 · NINDS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI TSIEN, RICHARD W · 1986 to 2014
$5.0M
Synaptic Adaptation and Plasticity After Chronic DisuseR37MH071739 · NIMH · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI TSIEN, RICHARD W · 2004 to 2013
$3.8M
NIMH NIH HHS R37 MH071739NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS024067
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In excitable cells, membrane depolarization and activation of voltage-gated Ca²+ (Ca(V)) channels trigger numerous cellular responses, including muscle contraction, secretion, and gene expression. Yet, while the mechanisms underlying excitation-contraction and excitation-secretion coupling have been extensively characterized, how neuronal activity is coupled to gene expression has remained more elusive. In this article, we will discuss recent progress toward understanding the relationship between patterns of channel activity driven by membrane depolarization and activation of the nuclear transcription factor CREB. We show that signaling strength is steeply dependent on membrane depolarization and is more sensitive to the open probability of Ca(V) channels than the Ca²+ entry itself. Furthermore, our data indicate that by decoding Ca(V) channel activity, CaMKII (a Ca²+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase) links membrane excitation to activation of CREB in the nucleus. Together, these results revealed some interesting and unexpected similarities between excitation-transcription coupling and other forms of excitation-response coupling.

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Action PotentialsAnimalsCalcium ChannelsCalcium SignalingGanglia, SympatheticHumansNeuronsCalcium Channels

Identifiers

PMID21352861
PMCPMC3930329
OpenAlexW1987938334

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