Selected Publications
Henry M. Colecraft, PhD

1. Sharma, V.K., Colecraft, H.M., Wang, D.X., Levey, A.I., Grigorenko, E.V., Yeh, H.H., and Sheu, S-S. 1996. Molecular and functional identification of m1 muscarinic receptors in rat ventricular myocytes. Circ. Res. 79:86-93.
2. Sharma, V.K., Colecraft, H.M., Rubin, L.E., and Sheu, S-S. 1997. Does mammalian heart contain only the m2 muscarinic receptor subtype? Life Sciences 60:1023-1029.
3. Colecraft, H.M., Egamino, J.P., Sharma, V.K., and Sheu, S-S. 1998. Signaling Mechanisms Underlying Muscarinic Receptor-mediated Increase in Contraction Rate in Cultured Heart Cells. J. Biol. Chem. 273:32158-66.
4. Wei, S.K., Colecraft, H.M., DeMaria, C.D., Peterson, B.Z., Zhang, R., Kohout, T.A., Rogers, T.B., and Yue, D.T. 2000. Calcium-channel modulation by recombinant auxiliary beta subunits expressed in young adult heart cells. Circ. Res. 86:175-184.
5. Colecraft, H.M., Patil, P.G., and Yue, D.T. 2000. Differential occurrence of reluctant openings in G-protein-inhibited N and P/Q-type calcium channels. J. Gen. Physiol. 115:175-192.
6. Colecraft, H.M., Brody, D.L., and Yue, D.T. 2001. G-protein inhibition of N- and P/Q-type calcium channels: Distinctive elementary mechanisms and their functional impact. J. Neurosci., 21:1137-1147.

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Alseikhan, B.A., DeMaria, C.D., Colecraft, H.M., and Yue, D.T. 2002. Engineered calmodulins reveal the unexpected eminence of Ca2+ channel inactivation in controlling heart excitation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.
99:17185-90.
8. Colecraft, M.H., Alseikhan, B., Takahashi, S. X., Chaudhuri, D., Mittman, Yegnasubramanian V., Alvania, R.S., Johns, D.C., Marbán, E., and Yue, D.T. 2002. Novel functional properties of Ca2+ channel subunits revealed by their expression in adult rat heart cells
J. Physiol. (Lond) 541: 435-452.
9. Takahashi, S.X., Mittman, S., and Colecraft, H.M. 2003. Distinctive Modulatory Effects of Five Human Auxiliary ß2 Subunit Splice Variants on L-Type Calcium Channel Gating. Biophys. J. 84:3007-3021.
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Agler, H.L., Evans, J.E., Colecraft, H.M., and Yue, D.T. (2003) Custom distinctions in the interaction of G-protein ß subunits with N-type (CaV2.2) versus P/Q-type (CaV2.1) calcium channels. J. Gen. Physiol. , 121:495-510.

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Takahashi, S.X., Miryala, J., and Colecraft, H.M. (2004) Membrane-associated guanylate kinase-like properties of ß subunits required for modulation of voltage-dependent Ca2+ channels. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. , 101: 7193-98.

12. Ganesan A.N., O’Rourke, B., Maack, C., Colecraft, H.M., Sidor, A., Johns, D.C. 2005.  Reverse engineering the L-type Ca2+ channel a1C subunit in adult cardiomyocytes using novel adenoviral vectors. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Comm. 329:749-54.
13. Agler, H.L., Evans, J., Tay, L-H., Anderson, M.J., Colecraft, H.M., and Yue D.T. 2005.  G-protein gated inhibitory module of N-type (CaV2.2) Ca2+ channels. Neuron, 46:891-904.
14. Dalton, S., Takahashi, S.X., Miriyala, J., and Colecraft, H.M. 2005. A single CaVb can reconstitute both trafficking and macroscopic conductance of voltage-dependent calcium channels. J. Physiol., 567:757-769.
15. Takahashi, S.X., Miriyala, J., Tay, L.H., Yue, D.T., and Colecraft, H.M. 2005.  A CaVb SH3-GK interaction regulates multiple properties of voltage-gated Ca2+ channels. J. Gen. Physiol., 126:365-377.
   

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