Receptor signaling integration by TRP channelsomes

• Published in: Advances in experimental medicine and biology Vol. 704; p. 373
• Main Authors: Mori, Yasuo, Kajimoto, Taketoshi, Nakao, Akito, Takahashi, Nobuaki, Kiyonaka, Shigeki
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.01.2011
• Subjects: Animals; Humans; Signal Transduction; Transient Receptor Potential Channels - physiology

Homologues of transient receptor potential (TRP) genes encode a variety of cation channels, most of which conduct Ca(2+) across the plasma membrane. TRP proteins interact with a variety of proteins and other biologically important factors, such as second messengers, and thereby form "channelsom...