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The Drosophila melanogaster Na+/Ca2+ Exchanger CALX Controls the Ca2+ Level in Olfactory Sensory Neurons at Rest and After Odorant Receptor Activation

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, July 2018
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Title
The Drosophila melanogaster Na+/Ca2+ Exchanger CALX Controls the Ca2+ Level in Olfactory Sensory Neurons at Rest and After Odorant Receptor Activation
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Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, July 2018
DOI 10.3389/fncel.2018.00186
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Lorena Halty-deLeon, Bill S. Hansson, Dieter Wicher

Abstract

CALX, the Na+/Ca2+ exchanger in Drosophila, is highly expressed in the outer dendrites of olfactory sensory neurons (OSNs) which are equipped with the odorant receptors (ORs). Insect OR/Orco dimers are nonselective cation channels that pass also calcium which leads to elevated calcium levels after OR activation. CALX exhibits an anomalous regulation in comparison to its homolog in mammals sodium/calcium exchanger, NCX: it is inhibited by increasing intracellular calcium concentration [Ca2+]i. Thus, CALX mediates only Ca2+ efflux, not influx. The main goal of this study was to elucidate a possible role of this protein in the olfactory response. We first asked whether already described NCX inhibitors were capable of blocking CALX. By means of calcium imaging techniques in ex-vivo preparations and heterologous expression systems, we determined ORM-10962 as a potent CALX inhibitor. CALX inhibition did not affect the odor response but it affected the recovery of the calcium level after this response. In addition, CALX controls the calcium level of OSNs at rest.

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Unknown 21 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 14%
Researcher 3 14%
Student > Postgraduate 3 14%
Student > Bachelor 2 10%
Student > Master 1 5%
Other 2 10%
Unknown 7 33%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 19%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 14%
Medicine and Dentistry 2 10%
Neuroscience 2 10%
Immunology and Microbiology 1 5%
Other 1 5%
Unknown 8 38%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 August 2018.
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#7,229,289
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