Intracellular calcium regulation of connexin43

MM Lurtz, CF Louis - American Journal of Physiology-Cell …, 2007 - journals.physiology.org
… HeLa cells were grown to confluence on sterilized glass coverslips in 35-mm culture
dishes in DMEM (with 44 mM NaHCO 3 , pH 7.2) supplemented with 10% vol/vol FBS, 100 U/ml …

[HTML][HTML] Identification of the calmodulin binding domain of connexin 43

Y Zhou, W Yang, MM Lurtz, Y Ye, Y Huang… - Journal of biological …, 2007 - ASBMB
Calmodulin (CaM) has been implicated in mediating the Ca 2+ -dependent regulation of gap
junctions. This report identifies a CaM-binding motif comprising residues 136–158 in the …

Molecular interaction and functional regulation of connexin50 gap junctions by calmodulin

…, HC Wong, Q Xu, J Jiang, S Wang, MM Lurtz… - Biochemical …, 2011 - portlandpress.com
mM EGTA was titrated by gradually adding 5–10 μl aliquots of the peptide stock solution (0.25–0.8
mM… μl aliquots of 50 or 15 mM Ca 2+ stock solution in Ca 2+ equilibrium buffer with 50 …

[HTML][HTML] Calmodulin mediates the Ca2+-dependent regulation of Cx44 gap junctions

Y Zhou, W Yang, MM Lurtz, Y Chen, J Jiang, Y Huang… - Biophysical journal, 2009 - cell.com
We have shown previously that the Ca 2+ -dependent inhibition of lens epithelial cell-to-cell
communication is mediated in part by the direct association of calmodulin (CaM) with …

Developing Sensors for Real-Time Measurement of High Ca2+ Concentrations

J Zou, AM Hofer, MM Lurtz, G Gadda, AL Ellis… - Biochemistry, 2007 - ACS Publications
… The protein was eluted from the column with a gradient of imidazole in 50 mM NaH 2 PO 4
/Na 2 HPO 4 and 250 mM NaCl (pH 7.4) and identified by mass spectrometry. Imidazole was …

Calmodulin and protein kinase C regulate gap junctional coupling in lens epithelial cells

MM Lurtz, CF Louis - American Journal of Physiology-Cell …, 2003 - journals.physiology.org
… cells was placed in a 35-mm petri dish, sealed, flash frozen in … with 1 mm outside diameter,
0.75 mm inner diameter, and an … Micropipettes backfilled with a 1 mM solution of AF594 were …

Aminotriarylmethane dyes are high-affinity noncompetitive antagonists of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor

MM Lurtz, SE Pedersen - Molecular pharmacology, 1999 - ASPET
… AChR-rich membranes were incubated for 1 h at ambient temperature in the presence of
500 nM CrV and 0.1 mM carbamylcholine in the presence or absence of 1 mM PCP. …

Ca2+ regulation of gap junctional coupling in lens epithelial cells

GC Churchill, MM Lurtz… - American Journal of …, 2001 - journals.physiology.org
… Two milliliters of this cell suspension was placed into a 35-mm plastic petri plate containing
a 25-mm-diameter glass coverslip coated with poly-l-ornithine (100 μg/ml). Cells were grown …

Quinacrine and Ethidium Bromide Bind the Same Locus on the Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor from Torpedo californica

MM Lurtz, ML Hareland, SE Pedersen - Biochemistry, 1997 - ACS Publications
… PCP was titrated into cuvettes containing 350 nM quinacrine in 10 mM phosphate buffer,
pH 7.4, with 1 mM carbamylcholine, and Torpedo AChR (0.75 mg/mL protein, ·), 0.75 mg/mL …

[PDF][PDF] Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor channel electrostatics determined by diffusion-enhanced luminescence energy transfer

RH Meltzer, MM Lurtz, TG Wensel, SE Pedersen - Biophysical journal, 2006 - cell.com
… measured in 300 mM NaCl and … mM Tb31-chelate in 10 mM HEPES, pH 7.0. Decay rates
for the chelate alone (black dots), with 2 mM CrV (blue dots), and with 2 mM CrV bound to 3 mM