Article
Orais and STIMs: physiological mechanisms and disease.
Journal of cellular and molecular medicine - 1 Mar 2012
Berna-Erro A, Woodard G E, Rosado J A
Abstract excerpt
The stromal interaction molecules STIM1 and STIM2 are Ca(2+) sensors, mostly located in the endoplasmic reticulum, that detect changes in the intraluminal Ca(2+) concentration and communicate this information to plasma membrane store-operated channels, including members of the Orai family, thus mediating store-operated Ca(2+) entry (SOCE). Orai and STIM proteins are almost ubiquitously expressed in human...
Topics
- Animals
- Autoimmune Diseases
- Calcium
- Calcium Channels
- Calcium Signaling
- Cell Adhesion Molecules
- Cell Membrane
- Drosophila melanogaster
- Endoplasmic Reticulum
- Humans
- Membrane Proteins
