[HTML][HTML] Rapid small-scale nanobody-assisted purification of ryanodine receptors for cryo-EM

C Li, K Willegems, T Uchański, E Pardon… - Journal of Biological …, 2024 - Elsevier
Ryanodine receptors (RyRs) are large Ca 2+ release channels residing in the endoplasmic
or sarcoplasmic reticulum membrane. Three isoforms of RyRs have been identified in …

Cryo-EM investigation of ryanodine receptor type 3

YS Chen, M Garcia-Castañeda… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Ryanodine Receptor isoform 3 (RyR3) is a large ion channel found in the
endoplasmic reticulum membrane of many different cell types. Within the hippocampal …

RyR2 Binding of an Antiarrhythmic Cyclic Depsipeptide Mapped Using Confocal Fluorescence Lifetime Detection of FRET

J Seflova, JA Schwarz, AN Smith… - ACS Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Hyperactivity of cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) ryanodine receptor (RyR2) Ca2+-
release channels contributes to heart failure and arrhythmias. Reducing the RyR2 activity …

Significance of Zn2+ in RyR1 for Structural Integrity and Ligand Binding: Insight from Molecular Dynamics

P Taweechat, P Boonamnaj, M Samsó… - The Journal of …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Ryanodine receptor type 1 (RyR1) is a Ca2+-release channel central to skeletal muscle
excitation–contraction (EC) coupling. RyR1's cryo-EM structures reveal a zinc-finger motif …

Dopamine, norepinephrine, and vasopressin accelerate particle transport velocity in murine tracheal epithelium via substance-specific receptor pathways …

G Schmidt, I Greif, S Müller, M Markmann… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Background The unique ability of the respiratory tract to protect the integrity of the airways by
removing potentially harmful substances is defined as mucociliary clearance. This complex …

IDRWalker: A Random Walk Based Tool for Generating Intrinsically Disordered Regions in Large Protein Complexes

G Chen, Z Zhang - ACS omega, 2024 - ACS Publications
Intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs), which may be functionally important, are common in
proteins. However, the structures of IDRs are often missing due to their highly dynamic …

[HTML][HTML] Propofol binds and inhibits skeletal muscle ryanodine receptor 1

TT Joseph, W Bu, O Haji-Ghassemi, YS Chen… - British Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Background As the primary Ca 2+ release channel in skeletal muscle sarcoplasmic
reticulum (SR), mutations in type 1 ryanodine receptor (RyR1) or its binding partners …

[HTML][HTML] Pathogenicity assessment of seven RYR1 variants in patients with confirmed susceptibility to malignant hyperthermia in the Netherlands

LR van den Bersselaar, AH Schiemann… - British Journal of …, 2025 - Elsevier
Background Malignant hyperthermia (MH) susceptibility is associated with variants in RYR1,
the gene encoding the skeletal muscle ryanodine receptor-1 (RyR1), in 70–75% of patients …

IDRWalker: A Random Walk based Modeling Tool for Disordered Regions in Proteins

G Chen, Z Zhang - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Motivation: With the advancement of structural biology techniques, the elucidation of
increasingly large protein structures has become possible. However, the structural modeling …

Lipids modulate open probability of RyR1 under cryo-EM conditions

C Li, RG Efremov - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Ryanodine receptors (RyRs) are intracellular tetrameric ion channels responsible for
calcium; release from the sarcoplasmic and endoplasmic reticulum. Among the three known …