Rikard Blunck Department of Pharmacology and Physiology University of Montréal Biography Publications Institution JoVE Articles Rikard Blunck has not added a biography. If you are Rikard Blunck and would like to personalize this page please email our Author Liaison for assistance. Publications The Isolated Voltage Sensing Domain of the Shaker Potassium Channel Forms a Voltage-gated Cation Channel ELife. Oct, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 27710769 Structure of Anthrax Lethal Toxin Prepore Complex Suggests a Pathway for Efficient Cell Entry The Journal of General Physiology. Oct, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 27670897 The Human Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter (hSGLT1) Is a Disulfide-Bridged Homodimer with a Re-Entrant C-Terminal Loop PloS One. 2016 | Pubmed ID: 27137918 A Disease Mutation Causing Episodic Ataxia Type I in the S1 Links Directly to the Voltage Sensor and the Selectivity Filter in Kv Channels The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience. Sep, 2015 | Pubmed ID: 26338330 Reinitiation at Non-canonical Start Codons Leads to Leak Expression when Incorporating Unnatural Amino Acids Scientific Reports. Jul, 2015 | Pubmed ID: 26153354 Do Lipids Show State-dependent Affinity to the Voltage-gated Potassium Channel KvAP? The Journal of Biological Chemistry. Jun, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24742679 Dynamics of Internal Pore Opening in K(V) Channels Probed by a Fluorescent Unnatural Amino Acid Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. May, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23630265 A Limited 4 Å Radial Displacement of the S4-S5 Linker is Sufficient for Internal Gate Closing in Kv Channels The Journal of Biological Chemistry. Nov, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 23019337 Mechanism of Electromechanical Coupling in Voltage-gated Potassium Channels Frontiers in Pharmacology. 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22988442 Automating Single Subunit Counting of Membrane Proteins in Mammalian Cells The Journal of Biological Chemistry. Oct, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22930752 Single Molecule Fluorescence Study of the Bacillus Thuringiensis Toxin Cry1Aa Reveals Tetramerization The Journal of Biological Chemistry. Dec, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 22006922 Double Mutant Cycle Analysis Identified a Critical Leucine Residue in the IIS4S5 Linker for the Activation of the Ca(V)2.3 Calcium Channel The Journal of Biological Chemistry. Aug, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21652722 Mode Shift of the Voltage Sensors in Shaker K+ Channels is Caused by Energetic Coupling to the Pore Domain The Journal of General Physiology. May, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21518834 Rapid Topology Probing Using Fluorescence Spectroscopy in Planar Lipid Bilayer: the Pore-forming Mechanism of the Toxin Cry1Aa of Bacillus Thuringiensis The Journal of General Physiology. Nov, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20974771 An Intersubunit Interaction Between S4-S5 Linker and S6 is Responsible for the Slow Off-gating Component in Shaker K+ Channels The Journal of Biological Chemistry. Apr, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20202932 [Single-channel Fluorescence Spectroscopy to Study Conformational Changes of Ion Channels] Medecine Sciences : M/S. Nov, 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19951670 Fluorescence Detection of the Movement of Single KcsA Subunits Reveals Cooperativity Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Dec, 2008 | Pubmed ID: 19074286 Distance Measurements Reveal a Common Topology of Prokaryotic Voltage-gated Ion Channels in the Lipid Bilayer Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Oct, 2006 | Pubmed ID: 17043236 Detection of the Opening of the Bundle Crossing in KcsA with Fluorescence Lifetime Spectroscopy Reveals the Existence of Two Gates for Ion Conduction The Journal of General Physiology. Nov, 2006 | Pubmed ID: 17043150 Cell Activation by Ligands of the Toll-like Receptor and Interleukin-1 Receptor Family Depends on the Function of the Large-conductance Potassium Channel MaxiK in Human Macrophages Infection and Immunity. Jul, 2006 | Pubmed ID: 16790810 A Hybrid Approach to Measuring Electrical Activity in Genetically Specified Neurons Nature Neuroscience. Nov, 2005 | Pubmed ID: 16205716 Gating Charge Displacement in Voltage-gated Ion Channels Involves Limited Transmembrane Movement Nature. Aug, 2005 | Pubmed ID: 16094369 Silicon Chip-based Patch-clamp Electrodes Integrated with PDMS Microfluidics Biosensors & Bioelectronics. Oct, 2004 | Pubmed ID: 15494233 Detecting Rearrangements of Shaker and NaChBac in Real-time with Fluorescence Spectroscopy in Patch-clamped Mammalian Cells Biophysical Journal. Jun, 2004 | Pubmed ID: 15189893 Voltage-clamp Fluorometry in Xenopus Oocytes Using Fluorescent Unnatural Amino Acids Tanja Kalstrup1, Rikard Blunck1,2 1Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, University of Montréal, 2Department of Physics, University of Montréal JoVE 55598 Biochimica
Voltage-clamp Fluorometry in Xenopus Oocytes Using Fluorescent Unnatural Amino Acids Tanja Kalstrup1, Rikard Blunck1,2 1Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, University of Montréal, 2Department of Physics, University of Montréal JoVE 55598 Biochimica