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From Ion Channels to Cell-to-Cell Conversations

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Editors:
  1. Ramón Latorre

    1. Centro de Estudios Científicos de Santiago and Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
      University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA

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  2. Juan Carlos Sáez

    1. Universidad Católica, Santiago, Chile
      Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, USA

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Table of contents (28 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvii
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  2. Ion Channels in Contact with the External World

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Molecular Origin of Voltage Dependence in Ionic Channels

      • F. Bezanilla, S.-A. Seoh, D. Sigg, D. M. Papazian
      Pages 3-19

    3. Inward Rectification by an Activation Gating Mechanism

      • A. G. Miller, C. A. Warren, R. W. Aldrich
      Pages 21-34

    4. Assembly of Shaker K-Channels from a Random Mixture of Subunits Carrying Different Mutations

      • David Naranjo
      Pages 35-46

    5. New Insights into the Topography, Gating and Modulation of MaxiK Channels

      • L. Toro, M. Wallner, P. Meera
      Pages 47-65

    6. Shifts of Macroscopic Current Activation in Partially Blocked Sodium Channels. Interaction between the Voltage Sensor and a μ-Conotoxin

      • Robert J. French, Richard Horn
      Pages 67-89

    7. β Subunit Modulation of the Coupling between Charge Movement and Pore Opening in Calcium Channels

      • Riccardo Olcese, Francesca Noceti, Pietro Baldelli, Ning Qin, Lutz Birnbaumer, Enrico Stefani
      Pages 91-104

    8. Thermodynamic Double Mutant Cycles with the Shaker K+ Channel and a Peptide Inhibitor Define the Spatial Location of Pore-Forming Residues

      • Patricia Hidalgo
      Pages 105-128

    9. Barium as a Probe of the Molecular Architecture of the Pore of K+ Channels

      • Ramon Latorre, Raymond Hurst, Felipe Diaz, Ligia Toro, Enrico Stefani
      Pages 129-146

    10. Possible Participation of a cAMP Regulated K+ Channel from the Sea Urchin Sperm in the Speract Response

      • Pedro Labarca, Celia Santi, Otilia Zapata, Carmen Beltrán, Arturo Liévano, Yolanda Sandoval et al.
      Pages 147-168

    11. Gating and Selectivity Properties of a cAMP-Activated K+ Selective Channel from Drosophila Larval Muscle

      • Pedro Labarca, Ricardo Delgado, Orlando Jorquera, Carlos Maureira
      Pages 169-183

    12. Regulation of Ca and Na Channels in GH3 Cells by Epidermal Growth Factor

      • Gabriel Cota, Ulises Meza, Eduardo Monjaraz
      Pages 185-197

    13. Physical State of the Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Membrane and Modulation of the Receptor Channel by the Lipid Environment

      • F. J. Barrantes
      Pages 199-216

    14. Amiloride-Sensitive Na+ Channels and Human Hypertension

      • Dale J. Benos, Bakhram K. Berdiev, Anne Lynn Bradford, James K. Bubien, Catherine M. Fuller, Iskander I. Ismailov
      Pages 217-231

    15. Anion Channels Involved in Volume Regulation: A Common Pathway for Chloride and Organic Osmolyte Permeation?

      • Andrés Stutzin, Ana Luisa Eguiguren, L. Pablo Cid, Francisco V. Sepúlveda
      Pages 233-243

    16. Volume Regulated Anion Channels and Cytoskeletal Interaction

      • Irena Levitan, Sarah S. Garber
      Pages 245-267

    17. Inhibitory Responses to Odorants in Vertebrate Olfactory Neurons

      • Juan Bacigalupo, Bernardo Morales, Pedro Labarca, Gonzalo Ugarte, Rodolfo Madrid
      Pages 269-284

    18. Multiple Pathways in Invertebrate Visual Transduction

      • Peter M. O’Day, Juan Bacigalupo, Cecilia Vergara, Gonzalo Ugarte, Diana M. Bautista, Joan E. Haab
      Pages 285-306

  3. Intercellular Channels

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 307-307
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About this book

Ion channels allow us to see nature in all its magnificence, to hear a Bach suite, to smell the aroma of grandmother's cooking, and, in this regard, they put us in contact with the external world. These ion channels are protein molecules located in the cell membrane. In complex organisms, cells need to communicate in order to know about their metabolic status and to act in a coordinate manner. The latter is also accomplished by a class of ion channels able to pierce the lipid bilayer membranes of two adjacent cells. These intercellular channels are the functional subunits of gap junctions. Accordingly, the book is divided in two parts: the first part is dedicated to ion channels that look to the external world, and the second part is dedicated to gap junctions found at cell interfaces. This book is based on a series of symposia for a meeting on ion channels and gap junctions held in Santiago, Chile, on November 28-30, 1995. The book should be useful to graduate students taking the first steps in this field as well as a reference for the aficionado. The aim of the meeting was mainly to show the impact of various modern techniques, including cell biology, molecular biology, biophysics, and molecular­ genetics techniques in the study of these ubiquitous intrinsic membrane proteins. Molecular-genetics techniques paved the road to the manipulation of the channel­ forming molecules.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Centro de Estudios Científicos de Santiago and Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile

    Ramón Latorre

  • University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA

    Ramón Latorre

  • Universidad Católica, Santiago, Chile

    Juan Carlos Sáez

  • Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, USA

    Juan Carlos Sáez

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: From Ion Channels to Cell-to-Cell Conversations

  • Editors: Ramón Latorre, Juan Carlos Sáez

  • Series Title: Series of the Centro De Estudios Científicos

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1795-9

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1997

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-45605-3Published: 30 June 1997

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-1797-3Published: 24 June 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-1795-9Published: 21 November 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1571-571X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVII, 504

  • Topics: Anatomy, Animal Anatomy / Morphology / Histology

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