Dayal A., Schrötter K., Pan Y., Föhr K., Melzer W. & Grabner M. (2017) The Ca²⁺ influx trough the mammalian skeletal muscle dihydropyridine receptor is irrelevant for muscle performance. Nature Communications 8.475 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-00629-x


Schrötter K.*, Dayal A.* & Grabner M. (*both authors contributed equally to this work) (2017) The mammalian skeletal muscle DHPR has larger Ca²⁺ conductance and is phylogenetically ancient to the early ray-finned fish sterlet (Acipenser ruthenus). Cell Calcium. 61: 22-31


Dayal A., Bhat V., Franzini-Armstrong, C. & Grabner M. (2013) Domain-cooperativity in the β_1a subunit is essential for dihydropyridine receptor voltage sensing in skeletal muscle. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 110(18): 7488-93


Pirone A., Schredelseker J., Tuluc P., Gravino E., Fortunato G., Flucher B.E., Carsana A., Salvatore F. & Grabner M. (2010) Identification and functional characterization of malignant hyperthermia mutation T1354S in the outer pore of the Cavα_1S-subunit. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 299(6):C1345-54


Dayal A., Schredelseker J., Franzini-Armstrong C. & Grabner M. (2010) Skeletal muscle excitation-contraction coupling is independent of a conserved heptad repeat motif in the C-terminus of the DHPR β_1a subunit Cell Calcium 47(6):500-6


Schredelseker J., Shrivastav M., Dayal A. & Grabner M. (2010) Non-Ca²⁺-conducting Ca²⁺ channels in fish skeletal muscle excitation-contraction coupling. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 107(12): 5658-63


Schredelseker J.*, Dayal A.*, Schwerte T., Franzini-Armstrong C. & Grabner M. (*both authors contributed equally to this work) (2009). Proper restoration of excitation-contraction coupling in the dihydropyridine receptor β₁-null zebrafish relaxed is an exclusive function of the β_1a subunit. J. Biol Chem. 284(2): 1242-1251


Schredelseker J., Di Biase V., Obermair G.J., Felder E.T., Flucher B.E., Franzini-Armstrong C. & Grabner M. (2005). The β_1a subunit is essential for the assembly of dihydropyridine-receptor arrays in skeletal muscle. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 102(47): 17219-24


Obermair G.J., Kugler G., Baumgartner S., Tuluc P., Grabner M. & Flucher B.E. (2005). The Ca²⁺ channel α₂δ-1 subunit determines Ca²⁺ current kinetics in skeletal muscle but not targeting of α_1S or excitation-contraction coupling. J Biol. Chem. 280: 2229-2237


Takekura H., Paolini C., Franzini-Armstrong C., Kugler G., Grabner M. & Flucher B.E. (2004). Differential contribution of skeletal and cardiac II-III loop sequences to the assembly of dihydropyridine-receptor arrays in skeletal muscle. Mol. Biol. Cell 15: 5408-5419


Weiss R.G., O'Connell K.M., Flucher B.E., Allen P.D., Grabner M. & Dirksen R.T. (2004). Functional analysis of the R1086H malignant hyperthermia mutation in the DHPR reveals an unexpected influence of the III-IV loop on skeletal muscle EC coupling. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol. 287(4): C1094-1102


Kugler G., Weiss R.G., Flucher B.E. & Grabner M. (2004). Structural requirements of the dihydropyridine receptor α_1S II-III loop for skeletal-type excitation-contraction coupling. J Biol Chem. 279(6): 4721-4728


Flucher B.E., Weiss R.G. & Grabner M. (2002). Cooperation of two-domain Ca²⁺ channel fragments in triad targeting and restoration of excitation-contraction coupling in skeletal muscle. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 99(15): 10167-10172


Wilkens C.M., Kasielke N., Flucher B.E., Beam K.G. & Grabner M. (2001). Excitation-contraction coupling is unaffected by drastic alteration of the sequence surrounding residues L720-L764 of the α_1S II-III loop. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 98(10): 5892-5897


Flucher B.E., Kasielke N. & Grabner M. (2000). The triad targeting signal of the skeletal muscle calcium channel is localized in the COOH terminus of the &alpha_1S subunit. J Cell Biol. 151(2): 467-78


Grabner M., Dirksen R.T., Suda N. & Beam K.G. (1999). The II-III loop of the skeletal muscle dihydropyridine receptor is responsible for the Bi-directional coupling with the ryanodine receptor. J Biol Chem. 274(31): 21913-21919


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