Henry A. Lester

Research.com Recognitions

• 2006 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 1987 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• 1974 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Best Publications

• Cloning and expression of a rat brain GABA transporter

  John Guastella;Nathan Nelson;Hannah Nelson;Linda Czyzyk

  1054
  Citations

• Nicotine Activation of α4* Receptors: Sufficient for Reward, Tolerance, and Sensitization

  Andrew R. Tapper;Sheri L. McKinney;Sheri L. McKinney;Sheri L. McKinney;Raad Nashmi;Raad Nashmi;Raad Nashmi;Johannes Schwarz;Johannes Schwarz;Johannes Schwarz

  890
  Citations

• From ab initio quantum mechanics to molecular neurobiology: A cation-pi binding site in the nicotinic receptor

  Wenge Zhong;Justin P. Gallivan;Yinong Zhang;Lintong Li

  711
  Citations

• International Union of Pharmacology. XLI. Compendium of voltage-gated ion channels : potassium channels

  George A. Gutman;K. George Chandy;John P. Adelman;Jayashree Aiyar

  598
  Citations

• The inward rectifier potassium channel family.

  Craig A Doupnik;Norman Davidson;Henry A Lester

  595
  Citations

• Cis – trans isomerization at a proline opens the pore of a neurotransmitter-gated ion channel

  Sarah C. R. Lummis;Darren L. Beene;Lori W. Lee;Henry A. Lester

  558
  Citations

• Genetic Inactivation of an Inwardly Rectifying Potassium Channel (Kir4.1 Subunit) in Mice: Phenotypic Impact in Retina

  Paulo Kofuji;Paul Ceelen;Kathleen R. Zahs;Leslie W. Surbeck

  530
  Citations

• Atrial G protein-activated K+ channel: expression cloning and molecular properties.

  N Dascal;W Schreibmayer;N F Lim;W Wang

  522
  Citations

• Cys-loop receptors: new twists and turns

  Henry A. Lester;Mohammed I. Dibas;David S. Dahan;John F. Leite

  513
  Citations

• The structural basis of function in Cys-loop receptors

  Andrew J. Thompson;Henry A. Lester;Sarah C. R. Lummis

  447
  Citations

• Nicotine binding to brain receptors requires a strong cation–π interaction

  Xinan Xiu;Nyssa L. Puskar;Jai A. P. Shanata;Henry A. Lester

  446
  Citations

• Neuronal P2X transmitter-gated cation channels change their ion selectivity in seconds.

  Baljit S. Khakh;Xiaoyan R. Bao;Cesar Labarca;Henry A. Lester

  440
  Citations

• A rat brain na + channel α subunit with novel gating properties

  Vanessa J. Auld;Alan L. Goldin;Douglas S. Krafte;John Marshall

  436
  Citations

• Evidence that the M2 membrane-spanning region lines the ion channel pore of the nicotinic receptor.

  Reid J. Leonard;Cesar G. Labarca;Pierre Charnet;Norman Davidson

  436
  Citations

• Nicotinic receptor binding site probed with unnatural amino acid incorporation in intact cells

  Mark W. Nowak;Patrick C. Kearney;Jeffrey R. Sampson;Margaret E. Saks

  434
  Citations

• RGS proteins reconstitute the rapid gating kinetics of Gβγ-activated inwardly rectifying K+ channels

  Craig A. Doupnik;Norman Davidson;Henry A. Lester;Paulo Kofuji

  416
  Citations

• Allosteric Control of Gating and Kinetics at P2X4Receptor Channels

  Baljit S. Khakh;William R. Proctor;Thomas V. Dunwiddie;Cesar Labarca

  412
  Citations

• Rat brain expresses a heterogeneous family of calcium channels

  Terry P. Snutch;John P. Leonard;Mary M. Gilbert;Henry A. Lester

  408
  Citations

• Conducting states of a mammalian serotonin transporter

  Sela Mager;Churl Min;Douglas J. Henry;Charles Chavkin;Charles Chavkin

  401
  Citations

• Channel gating governed symmetrically by conserved leucine residues in the M2 domain of nicotinic receptors

  Cesar Labarca;Mark W. Nowak;Haiyun Zhang;Lixin Tang

  387
  Citations