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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2016

Mechanism of gating by calcium in connexin hemichannels.

William Lopez, Jayalakshmi Ramachandran, Abdelaziz Alsamarah, Yun Luo, Andrew L Harris, Jorge E Contreras

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 66 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

66 citing papers in PubMed.

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  9. Large-pore connexin hemichannels function like molecule transporters independent of ion conduction.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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  10. Calcium Regulation of Connexin Hemichannels.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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  19. Unnexin is a protein subunit of a large-pore channel expressed by unicellular organisms.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

William LopezDepartment of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience, New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ 07103.
Jayalakshmi RamachandranDepartment of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience, New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ 07103.
Abdelaziz AlsamarahDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Western University of Health Sciences, Pomona, CA 91766.
Yun LuoDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Western University of Health Sciences, Pomona, CA 91766.
Andrew L HarrisDepartment of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience, New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ 07103.
Jorge E ContrerasDepartment of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience, New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ 07103; contrejo@njms.rutgers.edu.

Funding

Gating and Regulation of Connexin HemichannelsR01GM099490 · NIGMS · UNIV OF MED/DENT OF NJ-NJ MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI CONTRERAS, JORGE ENRIQUE · 2011 to 2025
$4.9M
Regulation of Cx26 and Cx32 Channels by Cytosolic Interdomain InteractionsR01GM101950 · NIGMS · UNIV OF MED/DENT OF NJ-NJ MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI CONTRERAS, JORGE ENRIQUE, HARRIS, ANDREW L · 2013 to 2016
$1.4M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM099490NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM101950
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Aberrant opening of nonjunctional connexin hemichannels at the plasma membrane is associated with many diseases, including ischemia and muscular dystrophy. Proper control of hemichannel opening is essential to maintain cell viability and is achieved by physiological levels of extracellular Ca

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AnimalsCalciumConnexinsRatsStatic ElectricityXenopusCalciumConnexinsconnexingatinghemichannels

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PMID27872296
PMCPMC5150374

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