Ion Channels, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2006 Methods and Protocols Methods in Molecular Biology Series, Vol. 337

Internationally recognized biomedical scientists describe recent technological breakthroughs and demonstrate their use in successful experimental designs. The diverse applications range from the study of allosteric regulation of ion channel activity using a classic mutagenesis approach, to the study of channel subunit stoichiometry using a novel biophysical approach based on fluorescence resonance energy transfer. Highlights include methods for heterologous expression of ion channels in cells, for determining channel structure-function, for studying channel regulation and physiological function, and for genetic screening and investigating channelopathies.

Methods for Exogenous Expression of Ion Channels in Cells.- Functional Reconstitution of the Human Epithelial Na+ Channel in a Mammalian Expression System.- Overexpression of Proteins in Neurons Using Replication-Deficient Virus.- Exogenous Expression of Proteins in Neurons Using the Biolistic Particle Delivery System.- Methods for Studying Channel Structure-function.- Tertiary and Quaternary Structure Formation of Voltage-Gated Potassium Channels.- Biophysical Approach to Determine the Subunit Stoichiometry of the Epithelial Sodium Channel Using the Xenopus laevis Oocyte Expression System.- Spectroscopy-Based Quantitative Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer Analysis.- Methods for Studying Channel Regulation and Physiological Function.- Probing the Effects of Phosphoinositides on Ion Channels.- Epithelial Sodium Channel in Planar Lipid Bilayers.- A Simple In Vivo Method for Assessing Changes of Membrane-Bound Ion Channel Density in Xenopus Oocytes.- Preparation of Cortical Brain Slices for Electrophysiological Recording.- Juxtacellular Labeling and Chemical Phenotyping of Extracellularly Recorded Neurons In Vivo.- Carbon Fiber Amperometry in the Study of Ion Channels and Secretion.- Methods for Studying Channelopathies, Genetic Screening, and Molecular Biology.- Genetic Screening for Functionality of Bacterial Potassium Channel Mutants Using K+ Uptake-Deficient Escherichia coli.- KCNQ1 K+ Channel—Mediated Cardiac Channelopathies.- Tissue-Specific Transgenic and Knockout Mice.

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