Francisco Bezanilla

Research interests

Publications

• Photoelectrochemical modulation of neuronal activity with free-standing coaxial silicon nanowires

  Nature Nanotechnology · 2018 · 10.1038/s41565-017-0041-7

• Photosensitivity of Neurons Enabled by Cell-Targeted Gold Nanoparticles

  Neuron · 2015 · 10.1016/j.neuron.2015.02.033

• Domain IV voltage-sensor movement is both sufficient and rate limiting for fast inactivation in sodium channels

  The Journal of General Physiology · 2013 · 10.1085/jgp.201310998

• Infrared light excites cells by changing their electrical capacitance

  Nature Communications · 2012 · 10.1038/ncomms1742

• How membrane proteins sense voltage

  Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology · 2008 · 10.1038/nrm2376

• Gating charge displacement in voltage-gated ion channels involves limited transmembrane movement

  Nature · 2005 · 10.1038/nature03888

• A proton pore in a potassium channel voltage sensor reveals a focused electric field

  Nature · 2004 · 10.1038/nature02270

• Tracking Voltage-dependent Conformational Changes in Skeletal Muscle Sodium Channel during Activation

  The Journal of General Physiology · 2002 · 10.1085/jgp.20028679

• Histidine Scanning Mutagenesis of Basic Residues of the S4 Segment of the Shaker K+ Channel

  The Journal of General Physiology · 2001 · 10.1085/jgp.117.5.469

• The Voltage Sensor in Voltage-Dependent Ion Channels

  Physiological Reviews · 2000 · https://doi.org/10.1152/physrev.2000.80.2.555

• Voltage Sensors in Domains III and IV, but Not I and II, Are Immobilized by Na+ Channel Fast Inactivation

  Neuron · 1999 · 10.1016/s0896-6273(00)80680-7

• Atomic scale movement of the voltage-sensing region in a potassium channel measured via spectroscopy

  Nature · 1999 · 10.1038/45552

• Voltage-Dependent Proton Transport by the Voltage Sensor of the Shaker K+ Channel

  Neuron · 1997 · 10.1016/s0896-6273(00)80422-5

• Characterizing Voltage-Dependent Conformational Changes in the K Channel with Fluorescence

  Neuron · 1997 · 10.1016/s0896-6273(00)80403-1

• Voltage-Sensing Residues in the S2 and S4 Segments of the Shaker K+ Channel

  Neuron · 1996 · 10.1016/s0896-6273(00)80142-7

• A method for determining the unitary functional capacity of cloned channels and transporters expressed in Xenopus laevis oocytes

  The Journal of Membrane Biology · 1995 · 10.1007/bf00234157

• Gating of Shaker K+ channels: II. The components of gating currents and a model of channel activation

  Biophysical Journal · 1994 · 10.1016/s0006-3495(94)80882-3

• Gating currents from a nonconducting mutant reveal open-closed conformations in Shaker K+ channels

  Neuron · 1993 · 10.1016/0896-6273(93)90190-3

• Molecular Basis of Gating Charge Immobilization in Shaker Potassium Channels

  Science · 1991 · 10.1126/science.1948047

• Inactivation of the sodium channel. I. Sodium current experiments.

  The Journal of General Physiology · 1977 · https://doi.org/10.1085/jgp.70.5.549

• Charge Movement Associated with the Opening and Closing of the Activation Gates of the Na Channels

  The Journal of General Physiology · 1974 · https://doi.org/10.1085/jgp.63.5.533

• Currents Related to Movement of the Gating Particles of the Sodium Channels

  Nature · 1973 · https://doi.org/10.1038/242459a0

• Destruction of Sodium Conductance Inactivation in Squid Axons Perfused with Pronase

  The Journal of General Physiology · 1973 · 10.1085/jgp.62.4.375

• Twitches in the presence of ethylene glycol bis(β-aminoethyl ether)-N,N′-tetraacetic acid

  Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics · 1972 · 10.1016/0005-2728(72)90194-6

• Negative Conductance Caused by Entry of Sodium and Cesium Ions into the Potassium Channels of Squid Axons

  The Journal of General Physiology · 1972 · 10.1085/jgp.60.5.588

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