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Virtual Special Issue FEBS Letters is proud to launch a new series of Virtual Special Issues which will highlight a collection of outstanding articles recently published in the journal, focusing on a selection of topics that we hope will be of general interest to our readers. In conjunction with our recent Special Issue on Intracellular Ion Channels, we are presenting a Virtual Special Issue on Channels, enclosing a selection of outstanding contributions on the topic published in FEBS Letters in the past two years. While the Intracellular Ion Channel Special Issue presents original Reviews on the recent advances regarding ion channels within the cell, the Virtual Special Issue collects a number of exciting Research Letters on the most diverse aspects of channels, such as intercellular communication, uptake of extracellular molecules, stress response, and disease; all analysed from a mechanistic point of view and introducing novel view-points on the diversity of functions that channels can have. We invite you to take a look at both Special Issues, as we believe that taken together they provide a good example of the high-standard science published in FEBS Letters.
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| Table of Contents
I. Review
II. Aquaporins
III. Gap Junctions
IV. Mechanistic dissection of channels
V. Functional diversity of channels
VI. Channels in stress response
VII. Channels in disease |
I. Review
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The intimate and mysterious relationship between proton channels and NADPH oxidase
, 10 December 2008
Boris Musset, Vladimir V. Cherny, Deri Morgan, Thomas E. DeCoursey
FEBS Letters
5 January 2009 (Vol. 583, Issue 1, Pages 7-12)
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| II. Aquaporins |
AtTIP1;3 and AtTIP5;1, the only highly expressed Arabidopsis pollen-specific aquaporins, transport water and urea
, 17 November 2008
Gabriela Soto, Karina Alleva, María Agustina Mazzella, Gabriela Amodeo, Jorge P. Muschietti
FEBS Letters
10 December 2008 (Vol. 582, Issue 29, Pages 4077-4082)
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The Arabidopsis thaliana aquaglyceroporin AtNIP7;1 is a pathway for arsenite uptake
, 22 April 2008
Stanislav V. Isayenkov, Frans J.M. Maathuis
FEBS Letters
14 May 2008 (Vol. 582, Issue 11, Pages 1625-1628)
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The yeast aquaglyceroporin Fps1p is a bidirectional arsenite channel
, 22 December 2009
Ewa Maciaszczyk-Dziubinska, Iwona Migdal, Magdalena Migocka, Tomasz Bocer, Robert Wysocki
FEBS Letters
19 February 2010 (Vol. 584, Issue 4, Pages 726-732)
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| III. Gap Junctions |
Cx23, a connexin with only four extracellular-loop cysteines, forms functional gap junction channels and hemichannels
, 06 December 2007
M. Kathryn Iovine, Anna M. Gumpert, Matthias M. Falk, Tamra C. Mendelson
FEBS Letters
23 January 2008 (Vol. 582, Issue 2, Pages 165-170)
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Cx40.8, a Cx43-like protein, forms gap junction channels inefficiently and may require Cx43 for its association at the plasma membrane
, 05 October 2009
Sarah V. Gerhart, Rebecca Jefferis, M. Kathryn Iovine
FEBS Letters
3 November 2009 (Vol. 583, Issue 21, Pages 3419-3424)
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| IV. Mechanistic dissection of channels |
Design and characterization of a constitutively open KcsA
, 11 February 2010
Luis G. Cuello, Vishwanath Jogini, D. Marien Cortes, Amornrat Sompornpisut, Michael D. Purdy, Michael C. Wiener, Eduardo Perozo
FEBS Letters
19 March 2010 (Vol. 584, Issue 6, Pages 1133-1138)
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A molecular mechanism for proton-dependent gating in KcsA
, 05 February 2010
Luis G. Cuello, D. Marien Cortes, Vishwanath Jogini, Amornrat Sompornpisut, Eduardo Perozo
FEBS Letters
19 March 2010 (Vol. 584, Issue 6, Pages 1126-1132)
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Probing the orientation of yeast VDAC1 in vivo
, 28 January 2009
Beth M. McDonald, Mateusz M. Wydro, Robert N. Lightowlers, Jeremy H. Lakey
FEBS Letters
18 February 2009 (Vol. 583, Issue 4, Pages 739-742)
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Single-channel study of the binding–gating coupling in the slowly desensitizing chimeric α7-5HT3A receptor
, 24 February 2009
José Antonio Bernal, José Mulet, Mar Castillo, Manuel Criado, Francisco Sala, Salvador Sala
FEBS Letters
18 March 2009 (Vol. 583, Issue 6, Pages 1045-1051)
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Single-channel study of the binding–gating coupling in the slowly desensitizing chimeric α7-5HT3A receptor
, 24 February 2009
José Antonio Bernal, José Mulet, Mar Castillo, Manuel Criado, Francisco Sala, Salvador Sala
FEBS Letters
18 March 2009 (Vol. 583, Issue 6, Pages 1045-1051)
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| V. Functional diversity of channels |
The second transmembrane domain of the large conductance, voltage- and calcium-gated potassium channel β1 subunit is a lithocholate sensor
, 31 January 2008
Anna N. Bukiya, Thirumalini Vaithianathan, Ligia Toro, Alejandro M. Dopico
FEBS Letters
5 March 2008 (Vol. 582, Issue 5, Pages 673-678)
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The BK channel accessory β1 subunit determines alcohol-induced cerebrovascular constriction
, 17 July 2009
Anna N. Bukiya, Jianxi Liu, Alejandro M. Dopico
FEBS Letters
3 September 2009 (Vol. 583, Issue 17, Pages 2779-2784)
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TRPA1 channel activation induces cholecystokinin release via extracellular calcium
, 13 December 2007
A.K. Purhonen, L.M. Louhivuori, K. Kiehne, K.E.O. Åkerman, K.H. Herzig
FEBS Letters
23 January 2008 (Vol. 582, Issue 2, Pages 229-232)
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The SLO3 sperm-specific potassium channel plays a vital role in male fertility
, 05 February 2010
Celia M. Santi, Pablo Martínez-López, José Luis de la Vega-Beltrán, Alice Butler, Arturo Alisio, Alberto Darszon, Lawrence Salkoff
FEBS Letters
5 March 2010 (Vol. 584, Issue 5, Pages 1041-1046)
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Transient receptor potential vanilloid-1 signaling inhibits differentiation and activation of human dendritic cells
, 27 April 2009
Balázs I. Tóth, Szilvia Benkő, Attila G. Szöllősi, László Kovács, Éva Rajnavölgyi, Tamás Bíró
FEBS Letters
19 May 2009 (Vol. 583, Issue 10, Pages 1619-1624)
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| VI. Channels in stress response |
Indole and other aromatic compounds activate the yeast TRPY1 channel
, 07 April 2008
W. John Haynes, Xin-Liang Zhou, Zhen-Wei Su, Stephen H. Loukin, Yoshiro Saimi, Ching Kung
FEBS Letters
30 April 2008 (Vol. 582, Issue 10, Pages 1514-1518)
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Hypotonic shocks activate rat TRPV4 in yeast in the absence of polyunsaturated fatty acids
, 27 January 2009
Stephen H. Loukin, Zhenwei Su, Ching Kung
FEBS Letters
18 February 2009 (Vol. 583, Issue 4, Pages 754-758)
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| VII. Channels in disease |
TRPV1-null mice are protected from diet-induced obesity
, 27 May 2008
Arianne L. Motter, Gerard P. Ahern
FEBS Letters
25 June 2008 (Vol. 582, Issue 15, Pages 2257-2262)
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Depletion of SK1 channel subunits leads to constitutive insulin secretion
, 19 December 2008
Marilou A. Andres, Nicholas C. Baptista, Jimmy T. Efird, Kathleen K. Ogata, Frederick P. Bellinger, Thomas Zeyda
FEBS Letters
22 January 2009 (Vol. 583, Issue 2, Pages 369-376)
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Regulation of voltage-gated K+ channels by glucose metabolism in pancreatic β-cells
, 03 June 2009
Masashi Yoshida, Katsuya Dezaki, Shiho Yamato, Atsushi Aoki, Hitoshi Sugawara, Hideo Toyoshima, San-e Ishikawa, Masanobu Kawakami, Masanori Nakata, Toshihiko Yada, Masafumi Kakei
FEBS Letters
7 July 2009 (Vol. 583, Issue 13, Pages 2225-2230)
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Essential role of TRPV2 ion channel in the sensitivity of dystrophic muscle to eccentric contractions
, 19 October 2009
Nadège Zanou, Yuko Iwata, Olivier Schakman, Jean Lebacq, Shigeo Wakabayashi, Philippe Gailly
FEBS Letters
19 November 2009 (Vol. 583, Issue 22, Pages 3600-3604)
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