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December

review
High-conductance potassium channels of the SLO family
Lawrence Salkoff, Alice Butler, Gonzalo Ferreira, Celia Santi and Aguan Wei
Nature Reviews Neuroscience 7, 1520–1525
(December 2006); doi:10.1038/nrn1992
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Large movement in the C terminus of CLC-0 chloride channel during slow gating
Ekaterina A Bykova, Xiao-Dong Zhang, Tsung-Yu Chen & Jie Zheng
Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 13, 1115–1119
(December 2006); doi:10.1038/nsmb1176
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Conformational restriction blocks glutamate receptor desensitization
Matthew C Weston, Peter Schuck, Alokesh Ghosal, Christian Rosenmund & Mark L Mayer
Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 13, 1120–1127
(December 2006); doi:10.1038/nsmb1178
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An SCN9A channelopathy causes congenital inability to experience pain
James J. Cox, Frank Reimann, Adeline K. Nicholas, Gemma Thornton, Emma Roberts, Kelly Springell, Gulshan Karbani, Hussain Jafri, Jovaria Mannan, Yasmin Raashid, Lihadh Al-Gazali, Henan Hamamy, Enza Maria Valente, Shaun Gorman, Richard Williams, Duncan P. McHale, John N. Wood, Fiona M. Gribble and C. Geoffrey Woods
Nature 444, 894–898
(14 December 2006); doi:10.1038/nature05413
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Neurobiology: A channel sets the gain on pain
Stephen G. Waxman
Nature 444, 831–832
(14 December 2006); doi:10.1038/444831a
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Phospholipids and the origin of cationic gating charges in voltage sensors
Daniel Schmidt, Qiu-Xing Jiang and Roderick MacKinnon
Nature 444, 775–779
(7 December 2006); doi:10.1038/nature05416
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review
Axonal conduction and injury in multiple sclerosis: the role of sodium channels
Stephen G. Waxman
Nature Reviews Neuroscience 7, 932–941
(December 2006); doi:10.1038/nrn2023
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November

article
Local potassium signaling couples neuronal activity to vasodilation in the brain
Jason S Carroll, Clifford A Meyer, Jun Song, Wei Li, Timothy R Geistlinger, Jérôme Eeckhoute, Alexander S Brodsky, Erika Krasnickas Keeton, Kirsten C Fertuck, Giles F Hall, Qianben Wang, Stefan Bekiranov, Victor Sementchenko, Edward A Fox, Pamela A Silver, Thomas R Gingeras, X Shirley Liu & Myles Brown
Nature Neuroscience 9, 1397–1403
(November 2006); doi:10.1038/nn1779
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Spider toxins activate the capsaicin receptor to produce inflammatory pain
Jan Siemens, Sharleen Zhou, Rebecca Piskorowski, Tetsuro Nikai, Ellen A. Lumpkin, Allan I. Basbaum, David King and David Julius
Nature 444, 208–212
(09 November 2006); doi:10.1038/nature05285
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Physiology: Channelled pain
Lesley Anson
Nature 444, 156
(09 November 2006); doi:10.1038/444156b
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Movement of 'gating charge' is coupled to ligand binding in a G-protein-coupled receptor
air Ben-Chaim1, Baron Chanda, Nathan Dasca, Francisco Bezanilla, Itzchak Parnas and Hanna Parnas1
Nature 444, 106–109
(02 November 2006); doi:10.1038/nature05259
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October

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Fast neurotransmitter release triggered by Ca influx through AMPA-type glutamate receptors
Andrés E. Chávez, Joshua H. Singer and Jeffrey S. Diamond
Nature 443, 705–708
(12 October 2006); doi:10.1038/nature05123
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Wnk4 controls blood pressure and potassium homeostasis via regulation of mass and activity of the distal convoluted tubule
Maria D Lalioti, Junhui Zhang, Heather M Volkman, Kristopher T Kahle, Kristin E Hoffmann, Hakan R Toka, Carol Nelson-Williams, David H Ellison, Richard Flavell, Carmen J Booth, Yin Lu, David S Geller & Richard P Lifton
Nature Genetics 38, 1124–1132
(2006); doi:10.1038/ng1877
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review
Non-conducting functions of voltage-gated ion channels
Leonard K. Kaczmarek
Nature Reviews Neuroscience 7, 761–771
(October 2006); doi:10.1038/nrn1988
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September

letter
Ion permeation through the Na⁺,K⁺-ATPase
Nicolás Reyes and David C. Gadsby
Nature 443, 470–474
(28 September 2006); doi:10.1038/nature05129
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Deletion of the background potassium channel TREK-1 results in a depression-resistant phenotype
Catherine Heurteaux, Guillaume Lucas, Nicolas Guy, Malika El Yacoubi, Susanne Thümmler, Xiao-Dong Peng, Florence Noble, Nicolas Blondeau, Catherine Widmann, Marc Borsotto, Gabriella Gobbi, Jean-Marie Vaugeois, Guy Debonnel & Michel Lazdunski
Nature Neuroscience 9, 1134–1141
(2006); doi:10.1038/nn1749
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TREKing toward new antidepressants
Joshua A Gordon & Rene Hen
Nature Neuroscience 9, 1081–1083
(2006); doi:10.1038/nn0906-1081
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Molecular identification of the CRAC channel by altered ion selectivity in a mutant of Orai
Andriy V. Yeromin, Shenyuan L. Zhang, Weihua Jiang, Ying Yu, Olga Safrina and Michael D. Cahalan
Nature 443, 226–229
(14 September 2006); doi:10.1038/nature05108
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Orai1 is an essential pore subunit of the CRAC channel
Murali Prakriya, Stefan Feske, Yousang Gwack, Sonal Srikanth, Anjana Rao and Patrick G. Hogan
Nature 443, 230–233
(14 September 2006); doi:10.1038/nature05122
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CFTR regulates phagosome acidification in macrophages and alters bactericidal activity
Anke Di, Mary E. Brown, Ludmila V. Deriy, Chunying Li, Frances L. Szeto, Yimei Chen, Ping Huang, Jiankun Tong, Anjaparavanda P. Naren, Vytautas Bindokas, H. Clive Palfrey & Deborah J. Nelson
Nature Cell Biology 8, 933–934
(20 August 2006); doi:10.1038/ncb1456
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CFTR: helping to acidify macrophage lysosomes
Joel Swanson
Nature Cell Biology 8, 908–909
(2006); doi:10.1038/ncb0906-908
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C-terminal modulator controls Ca²⁺-dependent gating of Cav1.4 L-type Ca²⁺ channels
Anamika Singh, Daniel Hamedinger, Jean-Charles Hoda, Mathias Gebhart, Alexandra Koschak, Christoph Romanin & Jörg Striessnig
Nature Neuroscience 9, 1108–1116
(September 2006); doi:10.1038/nn1751
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August

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Enzymatic activation of voltage-gated potassium channels
Yajamana Ramu, Yanping Xu and Zhe Lu
Nature 442, 696–699
(10 August 2006); doi:10.1038/nature04880
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review
P2X receptors as cell-surface ATP sensors in health and disease
Baljit S. Khakh and R. Alan North
Nature 442, 527–532
(02 August 2006); doi:10.1038/nature04886
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July

review
Variability, compensation and homeostasis in neuron and network function
Eve Marder and Jean-Marc Goaillard
Nature Neuroscience 7, 563–574
(July 2006); doi:10.1038/nrn1949
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The distribution and targeting of neuronal voltage-gated ion channels
Helen C. Lai and Lily Y. Jan
Nature Reviews Neuroscience 7, 548–562
(July 2006); doi:10.1038/nrn1938
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June

review article
New insights into cystic fibrosis: molecular switches that regulate CFTR
William B. Guggino and Bruce A. Stanton
Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 7, 426–436
(June 2006); doi:10.1038/nrm1949
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May

letter
A mutation in Orai1 causes immune deficiency by abrogating CRAC channel function
Stefan Feske , Yousang Gwack , Murali Prakriya, Sonal Srikanth, Sven–Holger Puppel, Bogdan Tanasa, Patrick G. Hogan, Richard S. Lewis, Mark Daly and Anjana Rao
Nature 441, 179–185
(11 May 2006); doi:10.1038/nature04702
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Cell biology: Cracking the calcium entry code
Anant B. Parekh
Nature 441, 163–165
(11 May 2006); doi:10.1038/441163a
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A small-molecule screen in C. elegans yields a new calcium channel antagonist
Trevor C. Y. Kwok, Nicole Ricker, Regina Fraser, Allen W. Chan, Andrew Burns, Elise F. Stanley, Peter McCourt, Sean R. Cutler and Peter J. Roy
Nature 441, 91–95
(04 May 2006); doi:10.1038/nature04657
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April

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Mutations in voltage-gated potassium channel KCNC3 cause degenerative and developmental central nervous system phenotypes
Michael F Waters, Natali A Minassian, Giovanni Stevanin, Karla P Figueroa, John P A Bannister, Dagmar Nolte, Allan F Mock, Virgilio Gerald H Evidente, Dominic B Fee, Ulrich Müller, Alexandra Dürr, Alexis Brice, Diane M Papazian & Stefan M Pulst
Nature Genetics 38, 447–451
(April 2006); doi:10.1038/ng1758
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Toxin-induced conformational changes in a potassium channel revealed by solid-state NMR
Adam Lange, Karin Giller, Sönke Hornig, Marie-France Martin-Eauclaire, Olaf Pongs, Stefan Becker and Marc Baldus
Nature 440, 959–962
(13 April 2006); doi:10.1038/nature04649
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March

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Atomic structure of a Na⁺- and K⁺-conducting channel
Ning Shi, Sheng Ye, Amer Alam, Liping Chen and Youxing Jiang
Nature 440, 570–574
(23 March 2006); doi:10.1038/nature04508
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Membrane biology: Permutations of permeability
William N. Zagotta
Nature 440, 427–429
(23 March 2006); doi:10.1038/440427a
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Signaling protein complexes associated with neuronal ion channels
Irwin B Levitan
Nature Neuroscience 13, 278–284
(March 2006); doi:10.1038/nn1647
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February

review article
Gating prokaryotic mechanosensitive channels
Eduardo Perozo
Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 7, 109–119
(February 2006); doi:10.1038/nrm1833
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Whole-cell patch-clamp measurements of spermatozoa reveal an alkaline-activated Ca²⁺ channel
Yuriy Kirichok, Betsy Navarro and David E. Clapham
Nature 439, 737–740
(09 February 2006); doi:10.1038/nature04417
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Stem cell engraftment at the endosteal niche is specified by the calcium-sensing receptor
Gregor B. Adams, Karissa T. Chabner, Ian R. Alley, Douglas P. Olson, Zbigniew M. Szczepiorkowski , Mark C. Poznansky, Claudine H. Kos, Martin R. Pollak, Edward M. Brown and David T. Scadden
Nature 439, 599–603
(02 February 2006); doi:10.1038/nature04247
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January

article
CaM kinase II phosphorylation of slo Thr107 regulates activity and ethanol responses of BK channels
Jianxi Liu, Maria Asuncion-Chin, Pengchong Liu and Alejandro M Dopico
Nature Neuroscience 9, 41–49
(January 2006); doi:10.1038/nn1602
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ORL1 receptor-mediated internalization of N-type calcium channels
Christophe Altier, Houman Khosravani, Rhian M Evans, Shahid Hameed, Jean B Peloquin, Brian A Vartian, Lina Chen, Aaron M Beedle, Stephen S G Ferguson, Alexandre Mezghrani, Stefan J Dubel, Emmanuel Bourinet, John E McRory and Gerald W Zamponi
Nature Neuroscience 9, 31–40
(January 2006); doi:10.1038/nn1605
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Internalizing channels: a mechanism to control pain?
Diane Lipscombe and Jesica Raingo
Nature Neuroscience 9, 8–10
(January 2006); doi:10.1038/nn0106-8
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