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Overview

Gerhard Meissner was affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research primarily focused on biochemical and molecular biological aspects of ion channel regulation and cardiac electrophysiology.

The scientist's work concentrated in the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a significant emphasis on the subfields of Molecular Biology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Physiology, and Animal Science and Zoology.

Key research topics that Gerhard Meissner contributed to included:

  • Ion channel regulation and function
  • Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias
  • Adipose tissue and metabolism
  • Neuroscience and neuropharmacology research
  • Neurobiology and insect physiology research
  • Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors study
  • Receptor mechanisms and signaling

Their recent scholarly output featured several papers published from 2020 to 2023. Notable publications included:

  • "Structural and functional interactions between the Ca2+-, ATP-, and caffeine-binding sites of skeletal muscle ryanodine receptor (RyR1)," 2021, Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • "Calmodulin activation and inhibition of skeletal muscle Ca2+ release channel (ryanodine receptor)," 2020, UNC Libraries
  • "Regulation of Cardiac Muscle Ca 2+ Release Channel by Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Lumenal Ca 2+," 2020, UNC Libraries
  • "Classes of Thiols That Influence the Activity of the Skeletal Muscle Calcium Release Channel," 2021, UNC Libraries
  • "Structural and functional interactions between the EF hand domain and S2-S3 loop in the type-1 ryanodine receptor ion channel," 2023, Journal of Biological Chemistry

Throughout their research career, Gerhard Meissner collaborated frequently with colleagues including Le Xu, Daniel A. Pasek, Naohiro Yamaguchi, and Ashutosh Tripathy.

Meissner's publications appeared predominantly in the venue UNC Libraries, with additional contributions to the Journal of Biological Chemistry, Cell Calcium, Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics, and Biophysical Journal.

Best Publications

  • Physiology of Nitric Oxide in Skeletal Muscle

    Jonathan S. Stamler;Gerhard Meissner

  • Activation of the cardiac calcium release channel (ryanodine receptor) by poly-S-nitrosylation.

    Le Xu;Jerry P. Eu;Gerhard Meissner;Gerhard Meissner;Jonathan S. Stamler

  • Purification and reconstitution of the calcium release channel from skeletal muscle

    F. Anthony Lai;Harold P. Erickson;Eric Rousseau;Qi Yi Liu

  • Ryanodine Receptor/Ca2+ Release Channels and Their Regulation by Endogenous Effectors

    Gerhard Meissner

  • Ryanodine activation and inhibition of the Ca2+ release channel of sarcoplasmic reticulum.

    G Meissner

  • Molecular cloning of cDNA encoding human and rabbit forms of the Ca2+ release channel (ryanodine receptor) of skeletal muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum.

    F Zorzato;J Fujii;K Otsu;M Phillips

  • Targeted deletion of Dicer in the heart leads to dilated cardiomyopathy and heart failure.

    Jian Fu Chen;Elizabeth P. Murchison;Ruhang Tang;Thomas E. Callis

  • Ryanodine modifies conductance and gating behavior of single Ca2+ release channel

    Eric Rousseau;Jeffrey S. Smith;Gerhard Meissner

  • Kinetics of Rapid Ca2+ Release by Sarcoplasmic Reticulum. Effects of Ca2+, Mg2+, and Adenine Nucleotides

    Gerhard W Meissner;Edward Darling;Julia Eveleth

  • Rapid calcium release from cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum vesicles is dependent on Ca2+ and is modulated by Mg2+, adenine nucleotide, and calmodulin.

    G Meissner;J S Henderson

  • Isolation of sarcoplasmic reticulum by zonal centrifugation and purification of Ca2+-pump and Ca2+-binding proteins

    Gerhard Meissner;Gregory E. Conner;Sidney Fleischer

  • Isolation and characterization of two types of sarcoplasmic reticulum vesicles

    Gerhard Meissner

  • The skeletal muscle calcium release channel: Coupled O2 sensor and NO signaling functions

    Jerry P Eu;Junhui Sun;Le Xu;Jonathan S Stamler

  • Single channel measurements of the calcium release channel from skeletal muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum. Activation by Ca2+ and ATP and modulation by Mg2+.

    Jeffrey S. Smith;Roberto Coronado;Gerhard Meissner

  • Sarcoplasmic reticulum contains adenine nucleotide-activated calcium channels

    Jeffrey S. Smith;Roberto Coronado;Gerhard W Meissner

  • Adenine nucleotide stimulation of Ca2+-induced Ca2+ release in sarcoplasmic reticulum.

    G Meissner

  • Single cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+-release channel: activation by caffeine

    E. Rousseau;G. Meissner

  • Activation of the Ca2+ release channel of skeletal muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum by caffeine and related compounds

    Eric Rousseau;Jeffrey Ladine;Qi Yi Liu;Gerhard W Meissner

  • Calmodulin activation and inhibition of skeletal muscle Ca2+ release channel (ryanodine receptor)

    Ashutosh Tripathy;Le Xu;G. Mann;G. Meissner

  • Immunolocalization of sarcolemmal dihydropyridine receptor and sarcoplasmic reticular triadin and ryanodine receptor in rabbit ventricle and atrium.

    S L Carl;K Felix;A H Caswell;N R Brandt

Frequent Co-Authors

Nikolay V. Dokholyan
Nikolay V. Dokholyan Pennsylvania State University
Jonathan S. Stamler
Jonathan S. Stamler Case Western Reserve University
Sidney Fleischer
Sidney Fleischer Vanderbilt University
Susan Treves
Susan Treves University Hospital of Basel
Francesco Muntoni
Francesco Muntoni University College London
Francesco Zorzato
Francesco Zorzato University of Ferrara
Eduardo Ríos
Eduardo Ríos Rush University
Barry R. Lentz
Barry R. Lentz University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Robert T. Dirksen
Robert T. Dirksen University of Rochester
Clara Franzini-Armstrong
Clara Franzini-Armstrong University of Pennsylvania

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