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SUBMITTER: Ben Johny M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3856249 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ben Johny Manu M Yang Philemon S PS Bazzazi Hojjat H Yue David T DT
Nature communications 20130101
Calmodulin regulation of CaV channels is a prominent Ca(2+) feedback mechanism orchestrating vital adjustments of Ca(2+) entry. The long-held structural correlation of this regulation has been Ca(2+)-bound calmodulin, complexed alone with an IQ domain on the channel carboxy terminus. Here, however, systematic alanine mutagenesis of the entire carboxyl tail of an L-type CaV1.3 channel casts doubt on this paradigm. To identify the actual molecular states underlying channel regulation, we develop a ...[more]