Ching Kung

Publications

• Stiffened Lipid Platforms at Molecular Force Foci
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Mar, 2013  |   Pubmed ID: 23476066
• The Core Domain As the Force Sensor of the Yeast Mechanosensitive TRP Channel
  The Journal of General Physiology. Dec, 2011  |   Pubmed ID: 22124118
• Increased Basal Activity is a Key Determinant in the Severity of Human Skeletal Dysplasia Caused by TRPV4 Mutations
  PloS One. 2011  |   Pubmed ID: 21573172
• Mechanosensitive Channels in Microbes
  Annual Review of Microbiology. 2010  |   Pubmed ID: 20825352
• Wild-type and Brachyolmia-causing Mutant TRPV4 Channels Respond Directly to Stretch Force
  The Journal of Biological Chemistry. Aug, 2010  |   Pubmed ID: 20605796
• Forward Genetic Analysis Reveals Multiple Gating Mechanisms of TRPV4
  The Journal of Biological Chemistry. Jun, 2010  |   Pubmed ID: 20424166
• Immunocytochemistry of Paramecium Cytoskeletal Structures
  Cold Spring Harbor Protocols. Jan, 2010  |   Pubmed ID: 20150124
• DNA Microinjection into the Macronucleus of Paramecium
  Cold Spring Harbor Protocols. Jan, 2010  |   Pubmed ID: 20150123
• Silencing Specific Paramecium Tetraurelia Genes by Feeding Double-stranded RNA
  Cold Spring Harbor Protocols. Jan, 2010  |   Pubmed ID: 20150122
• Mass Culture of Paramecium Tetraurelia
  Cold Spring Harbor Protocols. Jan, 2010  |   Pubmed ID: 20150121
• Maintaining Clonal Paramecium Tetraurelia Cell Lines of Controlled Age Through Daily Reisolation
  Cold Spring Harbor Protocols. Jan, 2010  |   Pubmed ID: 20150120
• Paramecium Tetraurelia: the Renaissance of an Early Unicellular Model
  Cold Spring Harbor Protocols. Jan, 2010  |   Pubmed ID: 20150105
• The Use of Yeast to Understand TRP-channel Mechanosensitivity
  Pflügers Archiv : European Journal of Physiology. Sep, 2009  |   Pubmed ID: 19462180
• Mechanical Force and Cytoplasmic Ca(2+) Activate Yeast TRPY1 in Parallel
  The Journal of Membrane Biology. Feb, 2009  |   Pubmed ID: 19219385
• Hypotonic Shocks Activate Rat TRPV4 in Yeast in the Absence of Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids
  FEBS Letters. Feb, 2009  |   Pubmed ID: 19174160
• Multiple Unbiased Prospective Screens Identify TRP Channels and Their Conserved Gating Elements
  The Journal of General Physiology. Nov, 2008  |   Pubmed ID: 18955590
• Ion Channels in Microbes
  Physiological Reviews. Oct, 2008  |   Pubmed ID: 18923187
• Indole and Other Aromatic Compounds Activate the Yeast TRPY1 Channel
  FEBS Letters. Apr, 2008  |   Pubmed ID: 18396169
• A Genome-wide Survey Suggests an Osmoprotective Role for Vacuolar Ca2+ Release in Cell Wall-compromised Yeast
  FASEB Journal : Official Publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. Jul, 2008  |   Pubmed ID: 18323404
• Yeast Gain-of-function Mutations Reveal Structure-function Relationships Conserved Among Different Subfamilies of Transient Receptor Potential Channels
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Dec, 2007  |   Pubmed ID: 18042709
• Yeast Screens Show Aromatic Residues at the End of the Sixth Helix Anchor Transient Receptor Potential Channel Gate
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Sep, 2007  |   Pubmed ID: 17878311
• Patch Clamp and Phenotypic Analyses of a Prokaryotic Cyclic Nucleotide-gated K+ Channel Using Escherichia Coli As a Host
  The Journal of Biological Chemistry. Aug, 2007  |   Pubmed ID: 17588940
• Lipid Perturbations Sensitize Osmotic Down-shock Activated Ca2+ Influx, a Yeast "deletome" Analysis
  FASEB Journal : Official Publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. Jun, 2007  |   Pubmed ID: 17314135
• A Possible Unifying Principle for Mechanosensation
  Nature. Aug, 2005  |   Pubmed ID: 16079835
• Prokaryotic K(+) Channels: from Crystal Structures to Diversity
  FEMS Microbiology Reviews. Nov, 2005  |   Pubmed ID: 16026885
• Microbial Mechanosensation
  Current Opinion in Neurobiology. Aug, 2005  |   Pubmed ID: 16006117
• Microbial K+ Channels
  The Journal of General Physiology. Jun, 2005  |   Pubmed ID: 15897296
• Heterologously Expressed Fungal Transient Receptor Potential Channels Retain Mechanosensitivity in Vitro and Osmotic Response in Vivo
  European Biophysics Journal : EBJ. Jul, 2005  |   Pubmed ID: 15711808
• Channels in Microbes: So Many Holes to Fill
  Molecular Microbiology. Jul, 2004  |   Pubmed ID: 15228520
• Gain-of-function Mutations Indicate That Escherichia Coli Kch Forms a Functional K+ Conduit in Vivo
  The EMBO Journal. Aug, 2003  |   Pubmed ID: 12912904
• PAK Paradox: Paramecium Appears to Have More K(+)-channel Genes Than Humans
  Eukaryotic Cell. Aug, 2003  |   Pubmed ID: 12912893
• The Transient Receptor Potential Channel on the Yeast Vacuole is Mechanosensitive
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Jun, 2003  |   Pubmed ID: 12771382
• An Exchanger-like Protein Underlies the Large Mg2+ Current in Paramecium
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Nov, 2002  |   Pubmed ID: 12422021
• Gating the Bacterial Mechanosensitive Channel MscL Invivo
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Apr, 2002  |   Pubmed ID: 11960017
• Calmodulin As an Ion Channel Subunit
  Annual Review of Physiology. 2002  |   Pubmed ID: 11826271