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SUBMITTER: Perni S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5748219 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Perni Stefano S Lavorato Manuela M Beam Kurt G KG
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20171211 52
Skeletal muscle contraction is triggered by Ca<sup>2+</sup> release from the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) in response to plasma membrane (PM) excitation. In vertebrates, this depends on activation of the RyR1 Ca<sup>2+</sup> pore in the SR, under control of conformational changes of Ca<sub>V</sub>1.1, located ∼12 nm away in the PM. Over the last ∼30 y, gene knockouts have revealed that Ca<sub>V</sub>1.1/RyR1 coupling requires additional proteins, but leave open the possibility that currently unte ...[more]