The MscS and MscL Families of Mechanosensitive Channels Act as Microbial Emergency Release Valves

Bacterial Mechanosensitive Channels—MscS: Evolution's Solution to Creating Sensitivity in Function

(2012) James H. Naismith et al.   Annual Review of Biophysics

Mechanosensitive Channels Protect Plastids from Hypoosmotic Stress During Normal Plant Growth

(2012) Kira M. Veley et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Single-Cell Census of Mechanosensitive Channels in Living Bacteria

(2012) Maja Bialecka-Fornal et al.   PLoS One

Three Routes To Modulate the Pore Size of the MscL Channel/Nanovalve

(2011) Li-Min Yang et al.   ACS Nano

Adaptive MscS Gating in the Osmotic Permeability Response inE. coli: The Question of Time

(2011) Miriam Boer et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

The pathway and spatial scale for MscS inactivation

(2011) Kishore Kamaraju et al.   JOURNAL OF GENERAL PHYSIOLOGY

Direct Measurement of Cell Wall Stress Stiffening and Turgor Pressure in Live Bacterial Cells

(2011) Yi Deng et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

The oligomeric state of the truncated mechanosensitive channel of large conductance shows no variance in vivo

(2011) Irene Iscla et al.   PROTEIN SCIENCE

Bacterial Osmoregulation: A Paradigm for the Study of Cellular Homeostasis

(2010) Janet M. Wood   Annual Review of Microbiology

Identification and experimental verification of a novel family of bacterial cyclic nucleotide-gated (bCNG) ion channels

(2010) David B. Caldwell et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES

The properties and contribution of the Corynebacterium glutamicum MscS variant to fine-tuning of osmotic adaptation

(2010) Kirsten Börngen et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES

Regulation of Peptidoglycan Synthesis by Outer-Membrane Proteins

(2010) Athanasios Typas et al.   CELL

An in vivo screen reveals protein-lipid interactions crucial for gating a mechanosensitive channel

(2010) Irene Iscla et al.   FASEB JOURNAL

Manipulating the permeation of charged compounds through the MscL nanovalve

(2010) Li-Min Yang et al.   FASEB JOURNAL

Adaptive behavior of bacterial mechanosensitive channels is coupled to membrane mechanics

(2010) Vladislav Belyy et al.   JOURNAL OF GENERAL PHYSIOLOGY

An improved open-channel structure of MscL determined from FRET confocal microscopy and simulation

(2010) Ben Corry et al.   JOURNAL OF GENERAL PHYSIOLOGY

YbdG inEscherichia coliis a threshold-setting mechanosensitive channel with MscM activity

(2010) Ulrike Schumann et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Architecture of peptidoglycan: more data and more models

(2010) Waldemar Vollmer et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

S. aureus MscL Is a Pentamer In Vivo but of Variable Stoichiometries In Vitro: Implications for Detergent-Solubilized Membrane Proteins

(2010) Michael R. Dorwart et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Conserved motifs in mechanosensitive channels MscL and MscS

(2009) Daniel Balleza et al.   EUROPEAN BIOPHYSICS JOURNAL WITH BIOPHYSICS LETTERS

An open-pore structure of the mechanosensitive channel MscL derived by determining transmembrane domain interactions upon gating

(2009) Yuezhou Li et al.   FASEB JOURNAL

State-stabilizing Interactions in Bacterial Mechanosensitive Channel Gating and Adaptation

(2009) Andriy Anishkin et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Structure of a tetrameric MscL in an expanded intermediate state

(2009) Zhenfeng Liu et al.   NATURE

The Membrane Lateral Pressure-Perturbing Capacity of Parabens and Their Effects on the Mechanosensitive Channel Directly Correlate with Hydrophobicity†

(2008) Kishore Kamaraju et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

On the Structure of the N-Terminal Domain of the MscL Channel: Helical Bundle or Membrane Interface

(2008) Irene Iscla et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Gating-associated conformational changes in the mechanosensitive channel MscL

(2008) K. Yoshimura et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Structure of an Open Form of an E. coli Mechanosensitive Channel at 3.45 A Resolution

(2008) W. Wang et al.   SCIENCE

A Structural Mechanism for MscS Gating in Lipid Bilayers

(2008) V. Vasquez et al.   SCIENCE

Three-Dimensional Architecture of Membrane-Embedded MscS in the Closed Conformation

(2007) Valeria Vásquez et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY