Calcium and vitamin D articles within Nature

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• Article | 30 June 2021

  Asymmetric activation of the calcium-sensing receptor homodimer

  Cryo-EM structures of human calcium-sensing receptor reveal intrinsic asymmetry in the receptor homodimer upon activation that is stabilized by calcimimetic drugs adopting distinct poses in the two protomers, priming one protomer for G-protein coupling.

  • Yang Gao
  • , Michael J. Robertson
  •  & Georgios Skiniotis

• Article | 26 August 2020

  The calcium-permeable channel OSCA1.3 regulates plant stomatal immunity

  A study in Arabidopsis thaliana shows that the immune receptor-associated cytosolic kinase BIK1 phosphorylates OSCA1.3 and identifies OSCA1.3 as the pathogen-responsive Ca²⁺-permeable channel that regulates stomatal closure.

  • Kathrin Thor
  • , Shushu Jiang
  •  & Cyril Zipfel

• Article | 11 October 2017

  Human TRPML1 channel structures in open and closed conformations

  Two structures of human transient receptor potential mucolipin 1 (TRPML1), in the closed and agonist-bound open states, have been resolved by electron cryo-microscopy.

  • Philip Schmiege
  • , Michael Fine
  •  & Xiaochun Li

• Outlook | 26 September 2012

  Nutrition: The vitamin D complex

  Many COPD patients are deficient in vitamin D, a condition that can lead to bone problems as well as difficulty breathing. Can dietary supplements be of help?

  • Thea Singer

• Research Highlights | 30 May 2012

  Partners for the sunshine vitamin

• Research Highlights | 19 October 2011

  Vitamin D to fight tuberculosis

• News Feature | 06 July 2011

  Nutrition advice: The vitamin D-lemma

  A vociferous debate about vitamin-D supplementation reveals the difficulty of distilling strong advice from weak evidence.

  • Amy Maxmen