SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

· Rozengurt, N, I Lopez, C Chiu, P Kofuji, HA Lester, and C Neusch. 2003. Time course of inner ear degeneration and defness in mice lacking the Kir4.1 potassium channel subunit. Hearing Research. 177: 71-80. pdf file.

· Zahs, KR, P Kofuji, C Meier, and R Dermietzel. 2003. Connexin immuoreactivity in glial cells of the rat retina. J. Comp. Neurol. 455: 531-546. pdf file.

· Kofuji, P, B Biedermann, V Siddharthan, M Raap, I Iandiev, I Milenkovic, A Thomzig, RW Veh, A Bringmann and A Reichenbach. 2002. Kir potassium channel subunit expression in retinal glial cells: implications for spatial potassium buffering. Glia 39:292-303. pdf file.

· Connors, NC and P Kofuji. 2002. Dystrophin Dp71 is critical for the clustered localization of potassium channels in retinal glial cells. J Neurosci 22:4321-4327. pdf file.

· Marcus, DC, T Wu, P Wangemann and P Kofuji. 2002. KCNJ10 (Kir4.1) potassium channel knockout abolishes endocochlear potential. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 282:C403-C407. pdf file.

· Neusch, C, N Rozengurt, RE Jacobs, HA Lester and P Kofuji. 2001. Kir4.1 potassium channel subunit is crucial for oligodendrocyte development and in vivo myelination. J Neurosci. 21:5429-5438. pdf file.

· Labarca, C, J Schwarz, P Deshpande, S Schwarz, MW Nowak, C Fonck, R Nashmi, P Kofuji, H Dang, W Shi, M Fidan, BS Khakh, Z Chen, BJ Bowers, J Boulter, JM Wehner and HA Lester. 2001. Point mutant mice with hypersensitive alpha 4 nicotinic receptors show dopaminergic deficits and increased anxiety. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 98:2786-2791. pdf file.

· Kofuji, P, P Ceelen, KR Zahs, LW Surbeck, HA Lester and EA Newman. 2000. Genetic inactivation of an inwardly rectifying potassium channel (Kir4.1 subunit) in mice: phenotypic impact in retina. J Neurosci 20: 5733-5740. pdf file.

· Doupnik, CA, N Davidson, HA Lester, and P Kofuji. 1997. RGS proteins reconstitute the rapid gating kinetics of gbetagamma- activated inwardly rectifying K+ channels. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 94:10461-6. pdf file.

· Silverman, SK, P Kofuji, DA Dougherty, N Davidson, and HA Lester. 1996. A regenerative link in the ionic fluxes through the weaver potassium channel underlies the pathophysiology of the mutation. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 93:15429-34. pdf file.

· Kofuji, P, CA Doupnik, N Davidson, and HA Lester. 1996. A unique P-region residue is required for slow voltage-dependent gating of a G protein-activated inward rectifier K+ channel expressed in Xenopus oocytes. J Physiol (Lond). 490:633-45.

· Kofuji, P, M Hofer, KJ Millen, JH Millonig, N Davidson, HA Lester, and ME Hatten. 1996. Functional analysis of the weaver mutant GIRK2 K+ channel and rescue of weaver granule cells. Neuron. 16:941-52. pdf file.

· Kofuji, P, N Davidson, and HA Lester. 1995. Evidence that neuronal G-protein-gated inwardly rectifying K+ channels are activated by G beta gamma subunits and function as heteromultimers. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 92:6542-6.

· Doupnik, CA, NF Lim, P Kofuji, N Davidson, and HA Lester. 1995. Intrinsic gating properties of a cloned G protein-activated inward rectifier K+ channel. J Gen Physiol. 106:1-23.