On the Mechanism of Respiratory ControlJournal of General Physiology - Tập 49 Số 1 - Trang 149-162 - 1965
Ronald A. Butow, Efraim Racker
Control of oxidation is the key mechanism in the regulation of energy metabolism. In glycolysis the oxidation of glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate is controlled by DPNH, which inhibits glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase. In oxidative phosphorylation the inhibition of electron flow from DPNH to oxygen, called "respiratory control," is the subject of this paper. After a discussion of the phys...... hiện toàn bộ
The Light Peak of the Electroretinogram Is Dependent on Voltage-gated Calcium Channels and Antagonized by Bestrophin (Best-1)Journal of General Physiology - Tập 127 Số 5 - Trang 577-589 - 2006
Lihua Y. Marmorstein, Jiang Wu, P. J. McLaughlin, John Yocom, Michael Karl, Rudgar Neussert, Soenke Wimmers, J. Brett Stanton, Ronald G. Gregg, Olaf Strauß, Neal S. Peachey, Alan D. Marmorstein
Mutations in VMD2, encoding bestrophin (best-1), cause Best vitelliform macular dystrophy (BMD), adult-onset vitelliform macular dystrophy (AVMD), and autosomal dominant vitreoretinochoroidopathy (ADVIRC). BMD is distinguished from AVMD by a diminished electrooculogram light peak (LP) in the absence of changes in the flash electroretinogram. Although the LP is thought to be generated by be...... hiện toàn bộ
Blockage of gallbladder tight junction cation-selective channels by 2,4,6-triaminopyrimidinium (TAP).Journal of General Physiology - Tập 66 Số 1 - Trang 97-115 - 1975
Julio H. Moreno
The organic cation 2,4,6-triaminopyrimidinium (TAP) specifically inhibits Na+ passive permeation (PNa) across gallbladder, small intestine, and choroid plexus without detectable effect on the Cl(-) permeability, indicating that Na+ and Cl(-) follow different permeation pathways. In bullfrog gallbladder, where it was examined in greater detail, the effect of TAP was shown to be: (a) complet...... hiện toàn bộ
THE CALCULATION OF TRANSFER RATES IN TWO COMPARTMENT SYSTEMS NOT IN DYNAMIC EQUILIBRIUMJournal of General Physiology - Tập 41 Số 6 - Trang 1135-1152 - 1958
Eugene Y. Berger, J. Murray Steele
Dynamic equilibrium in a biological system implies that the compartment under study does not change in size during the period of observation. In many biological systems there are, however, net changes with time and this report deals with the mathematical treatment necessary to calculate unequal rates of inflow and outflow.
A method is presented for the calcu...... hiện toàn bộ
A malignant hyperthermia–inducing mutation in RYR1 (R163C): consequent alterations in the functional properties of DHPR channelsJournal of General Physiology - Tập 135 Số 6 - Trang 629-640 - 2010
Roger A. Bannister, É. Estève, José M. Eltit, Isaac N. Pessah, Paul D. Allen, José R. López, Kurt G. Beam
Bidirectional communication between the 1,4-dihydropyridine receptor (DHPR) in the plasma membrane and the type 1 ryanodine receptor (RYR1) in the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) is responsible for both skeletal-type excitation–contraction coupling (voltage-gated Ca2+ release from the SR) and increased amplitude of L-type Ca2+ current via the DHPR. Because the DHPR and RYR1 are functionally co...... hiện toàn bộ
Interdomain Interactions within Ryanodine Receptors Regulate Ca2+ Spark Frequency in Skeletal MuscleJournal of General Physiology - Tập 119 Số 1 - Trang 15-32 - 2002
Alexander Shtifman, Christopher W. Ward, Takeshi Yamamoto, Jianli Wang, Beth A. Olbinski, Héctor H. Valdivia, Noriaki Ikemoto, Martin F. Schneider
DP4 is a 36-residue synthetic peptide that corresponds to the Leu2442-Pro2477 region of RyR1 that contains the reported malignant hyperthermia (MH) mutation site. It has been proposed that DP4 disrupts the normal interdomain interactions that stabilize the closed state of the Ca2+ release channel (Yamamoto, T., R. El-Hayek, and N. Ikemoto. 2000. J. Biol. Chem. 275:11618–11625). We have inv...... hiện toàn bộ
Ca2+ currents in cerebral artery smooth muscle cells of rat at physiological Ca2+ concentrations.Journal of General Physiology - Tập 107 Số 4 - Trang 459-472 - 1996
Michael Rubart, J B Patlak, Mark T. Nelson
Single Ca2+ channel and whole cell currents were measured in smooth muscle cells dissociated from resistance-sized (100-microns diameter) rat cerebral arteries. We sought to quantify the magnitude of Ca2+ channel currents and activity under the putative physiological conditions of these cells: 2 mM [Ca2+]o, steady depolarizations to potentials between -50 and -20 mV, and (where possible) w...... hiện toàn bộ