Friday Lecture Series
Recent Studies of Potassium Channels and Calcium-activated Chloride Channels
Lily Jan, Ph.D.,
Jack and Delores Change Endowed Chair in Physiology and Biophysics
University of California San Francisco, Investigator, HHMI
October 23, 2009
3:45 p.m.-5:00 p.m. (Refreshments, 3:15 p.m., Abby Lounge)
Caspary Auditorium
Recommended Articles:
Horresh I, Poliak S, Grant S, et al.. 2008. Multiple Molecular Interactions Determine the Clustering of Caspr2 and Kv1 Channels in Myelinated Axons. JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE 28(52): 14213-14222
Goldberg EM, Clark BD, Zagha E, et al.. 2008. K+ channels at the axon initial segment dampen near-threshold excitability of neocortical fast-spiking GABAergic interneurons. NEURON 58 (3): 387-400
Kole MHP, Letzkus JJ, Stuart GJ. 2007. Axon initial segment Kv1 channels control axonal action potential waveform and synaptic efficacy. NEURON 55( 4): 633-647
Gu C, Zhou W, Puthenveedu MA, et al. 2006. The microtubule plus-end tracking protein EB1 is required for Kv1 voltage-gated K+ channel axonal targeting. NEURON 52(5 ): 803-816
Kleopa KA, Elman LB, Lang B, et al. 2006. Neuromyotonia and limbic encephalitis sera target mature Shaker-type K+ channels: subunit specificity correlates with clinical manifestations. BRAIN 129(Part 6):1570-1584
Hasband MN, Park EW, Zhen DK, et al. 2002. Clustering of neuronal potassium channels is independent of their interaction with PSD-95. JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY 159(4): 663-672
Poliak S, Gollan L, Martinez R, et al. 1999. Caspr2, a new member of the neurexin superfamily, is localized at the juxtaparanodes of myelinated axons and associates with K+ channels. NEURON 24(4): 1037-1047
Klumpp DJ, Song EJ, Ito S, et al. 1995. The Shaker-like potassium channels of the mouse rod bipolar cell and their contributions to the membrane current. JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE 15 (7): 5004-5013 Part 1
Sheng M, Tsaur ML, Jan YN, et al. 1994. Contrasting subcellular localization of the KV1.2 K+ channel subunit in different neurons of rat brain. JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE 14( 4): 2408-2417
