supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2019YFA0801402);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(82271890);the Shanghai Key Clinical Specialty Project(shslczdzk05705);the Shanghai Top Priority Key Discipline Project(2017ZZ02019);Innovative Research Team of High-Level Local Universities in Shanghai(SHSMU-ZDCX20212200);the Macao Science and Technology Development Fund(FDCT)(0092/2022/A2,003/2022/ALC)。
Autosomal recessive spinocerebellar ataxias(SCARs)are one of the most common neurodegenerative diseases characterized by progressive ataxia.Although SCARs are known to be caused by mutations in multiple genes,there ar...
Abiotic stresses and soil nutrient limitations are major environmental conditions that reduce plant growth,productivity and quality.Plants have evolved mechanisms to perceive these environmental challenges,transmit th...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30870903 to Xiaorong Zeng, 31300948,81670130 to Xiaoqiu Tan, 81670313 to Jimin Cao);Science and Technology Support Program of Sichuan Province (2011FZ0106 to Xiaorong Zeng)
Dear Editor,Small conductance Ca2+-activated potassium (SK) channels are widely expressed in various tissues and play a unique role in regulating cell function by integrating cytosolic Ca2+ levels and membrane pot...
supported by National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases(NIAMS)/National Institutes of Health(NIH)Grant(R01 AR057404)to Jingsong Zhou
Muscle uses Ca2+ as a messenger to control contraction and relies on ATP to maintain the intracellular Ca2+ homeostasis. Mi- tochondria are the major sub-cellular organelle of ATP production. With a negative inner m...
supported by the Austrian Science Fund(FWFW 1226-B18)
Photouncaging of second messengers has been successfully employed to gain mechanistic insight of cellular signaling path- ways. One of the most enigmatic processes of ion channel regulation is lipid recognition and li...
supported by the Hong Kong Theme-based Research Scheme award(T13-706/11-1);the Hong Kong Research Grants Council(RGC)General Research Fund awards(662113,16101714,16100115);the ANR/RGC joint research scheme award(A-HKUST601/13);the Innovation and Technology Commission(ITCPD/17-9);supported by a Hong Kong University Grants Council post-graduate studentship(T13-706/11-11PG)
In order to develop a novel method of visualizing possible Ca2+ signaling during the early differentiation of hESCs into cardi- omyocytes and avoid some of the inherent problems associated with using fluorescent repo...
supported by the US National Institutes of Health(GM081749 and EB007268);a Center for Diagnostics and Therapeutics fellowship(to Zhang Chen);funds from the Georgia Research Alliance
The Ca2+-sensing receptor(the Ca SR),a G-protein-coupled receptor,regulates Ca2+ homeostasis in the body by monitoring extracellular levels of Ca2+([Ca2+]o) and responding to a diverse array of stimuli.Mutations in th...
supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(81228021);US National Institutes of Health(DK081654)
Canonical transient receptor potential 4(TRPC4) forms non-selective cation channels that contribute to phospholipase C-dependent Ca2+ entry into cells following stimulation of G protein coupled receptors and receptor ...
Store-operated Ca2+ entry(SOCE) controls intracellular Ca2+ homeostasis and regulates a wide range of cellular events including proliferation,migration and invasion.The discovery of STIM proteins as Ca2+ sensors and O...
supported by US National Institutes of Health(R01GM096458)to Wang LiGuo
Membrane proteins are involved in various critical biological processes,and studying membrane proteins represents a major challenge in protein biochemistry.As shown by both structural and functional studies,the membra...