Nature Communications (Jan 2023)

Molecular insights into the gating mechanisms of voltage-gated calcium channel CaV2.3

  • Yiwei Gao,
  • Shuai Xu,
  • Xiaoli Cui,
  • Hao Xu,
  • Yunlong Qiu,
  • Yiqing Wei,
  • Yanli Dong,
  • Boling Zhu,
  • Chao Peng,
  • Shiqi Liu,
  • Xuejun Cai Zhang,
  • Jianyuan Sun,
  • Zhuo Huang,
  • Yan Zhao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36260-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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The CaV2.3 channel is involved in synaptic plasticity and neurological disorders. Here, authors resolve the human CaV2.3 structure to explore functional heterogeneity of VSDs and elucidated the closed- and open-state inactivation mechanisms of the channel.