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Isolated Cardiac Ryanodine Receptor Function Varies Between Mammals
Concerted robust opening of cardiac ryanodine receptors’ (RyR2) Ca 2+ release 1oplasmic reticulum (SR) is fundamental for normal systolic cardiac...
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Probing spatiotemporal PKA activity at the ryanodine receptor and SERCA2a nanodomains in cardomyocytes
Spatiotemporal regulation of subcellular protein kinase A (PKA) activity for precise substrate phosphorylation is essential for cellular responses to...
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Subcellular localization of hippocampal ryanodine receptor 2 and its role in neuronal excitability and memory
Ryanodine receptor 2 (RyR2) is abundantly expressed in the heart and brain. Mutations in RyR2 are associated with both cardiac arrhythmias and...
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Alterations in calmodulin-cardiac ryanodine receptor molecular recognition in congenital arrhythmias
Calmodulin (CaM), a ubiquitous and highly conserved Ca 2+ -sensor protein involved in the regulation of over 300 molecular targets, has been recently...
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“Ryanopathies” and RyR2 dysfunctions: can we further decipher them using in vitro human disease models?
The regulation of intracellular calcium (Ca 2+ ) homeostasis is fundamental to maintain normal functions in many cell types. The ryanodine receptor...
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Live-cell photoactivated localization microscopy correlates nanoscale ryanodine receptor configuration to calcium sparks in cardiomyocytes
Ca 2+ sparks constitute the fundamental units of Ca 2+ release in cardiomyocytes. Here we investigate how ryanodine receptors (RyRs) collectively...
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MALAT1 knockdown protects from bronchial/tracheal smooth muscle cell injury via regulation of microRNA-133a/ryanodine receptor 2 axis
Asthma has significant impacts on living quality particularly in children. Long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) MALAT1 plays a crucial role in neonatal...
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CRISPR/Cas9 Gene Editing of RYR2 in Human iPSC-Derived Cardiomyocytes to Probe Ca2+ Signaling Aberrancies of CPVT Arrhythmogenesis
Human-induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) provide a powerful platform to study biophysical and molecular mechanisms underlying the... -
Enhancing calmodulin binding to cardiac ryanodine receptor completely inhibits pressure-overload induced hypertrophic signaling
Cardiac hypertrophy is a well-known major risk factor for poor prognosis in patients with cardiovascular diseases. Dysregulation of intracellular Ca 2+ ...
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Loss of Ryanodine Receptor 2 impairs neuronal activity-dependent remodeling of dendritic spines and triggers compensatory neuronal hyperexcitability
Dendritic spines are postsynaptic domains that shape structural and functional properties of neurons. Upon neuronal activity, Ca 2+ transients trigger...
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The function and regulation of calsequestrin-2: implications in calcium-mediated arrhythmias
Cardiac arrhythmias are life-threatening events in which the heart develops an irregular rhythm. Mishandling of Ca 2+ within the myocytes of the heart...
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p38γ/δ activation alters cardiac electrical activity and predisposes to ventricular arrhythmia
Ventricular fibrillation (VF) is a leading immediate cause of sudden cardiac death. There is a strong association between aging and VF, although the...
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Personalized medicine in the dish to prevent calcium leak associated with short-coupled polymorphic ventricular tachycardia in patient-derived cardiomyocytes
BackgroundPolymorphic ventricular tachycardia (PMVT) is a rare genetic disease associated with structurally normal hearts which in 8% of cases can...
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Vascular dysfunction caused by loss of Brn-3b/POU4F2 transcription factor in aortic vascular smooth muscle cells is linked to deregulation of calcium signalling pathways
Phenotypic and functional changes in vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) contribute significantly to cardiovascular diseases (CVD) but factors...
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The Role of Ryanodine and IP3-receptors in Calcium Responses to Tricyclic Antidepressants in Rat Neocortical Neurons
AbstractTricyclic antidepressants, specifically amitriptyline (ATL) and desipramine (DES) are currently used to treat depression and chronic pain of...
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Knockout of M-LP/Mpv17L, a newly identified atypical PDE, induces physiological afferent cardiac hypertrophy in mice
M-LP/Mpv17L (Mpv17-like protein) is an atypical cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase (PDE) without the molecular structure characteristic of the PDE...
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Metabolism and Receptor Mechanisms of Niacin Action
AbstractThe paper discusses the metabolism of niacin, also known as vitamin B3 or PP, and the mechanisms of its receptor-induced functions in the...
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TRPC7 regulates the electrophysiological functions of embryonic stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes
BackgroundBiological pacemakers consisting of pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes are potentially useful for treating bradycardia. However,...
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Regulatory mechanisms of ryanodine receptor/Ca2+ release channel revealed by recent advancements in structural studies
Ryanodine receptors (RyRs) are huge homotetrameric Ca 2+ release channels localized to the sarcoplasmic reticulum. RyRs are responsible for the...
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Crystal structure of diamondback moth ryanodine receptor Repeat34 domain reveals insect-specific phosphorylation sites
BackgroundRyanodine receptor (RyR), a calcium-release channel located in the sarcoplasmic reticulum membrane of muscles, is the target of...