Calcium signalling: setting store by calcium channels.
Recent work, stemming from genetic studies of phototransduction in Drosophila, has identified a set of homologous channel proteins that appear to mediate capacitative Ca2+ entry in species from worms and files to humans.
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Cambridge University, Department of Anatomy, UK.
D000818:Animals; D002118:Calcium / Q000378:metabolism*; D015220:Calcium Channels / Q000378:metabolism*; D029721:Drosophila Proteins; D006801:Humans; D019476:Insect Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D007473:Ion Channels / Q000378:metabolism; D015398:Signal Transduction; D050052:TRPC Cation Channels; D050051:Transient Receptor Potential Channels
D015220:Calcium Channels; D029721:Drosophila Proteins; D019476:Insect Proteins; D007473:Ion Channels; D050052:TRPC Cation Channels; D050051:Transient Receptor Potential Channels; C096351:transient receptor potential cation channel, subfamily C, member 1; C063169:trp protein, Drosophila; D002118:Calcium