Storey lab research on Estivation in the land snail, Otala lactea

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Review articles

Storey, K.B. and Storey, J.M. 2010. Metabolic regulation and gene expression during aestivation.  In: Aestivation: Molecular and Physiological Aspects. (Navas, C.A. and. Carvalho, J.E., eds), Progress in Molecular and Subcellular Biology, Springer, Heidelberg, Vol. 49, pp.25-45.   DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-02421-4_2 Abstract .  PDF

Storey, K.B. and Storey, J.M. 2004. Metabolic rate depression in animals: transcriptional and translational controls. Biol. Rev. 79, 207-233.  PDF

Storey, K.B. 2002. Life in the slow lane: molecular mechanisms of estivation. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. A 133, 733-754. PDF

Storey, K.B. 2001. Turning down the fires of life: metabolic regulation of hibernation and estivation. In: Molecular Mechanisms of Metabolic Arrest (Storey, K.B., ed.) BIOS Scientific Publishers, pp. 1-21. Manuscript PDF, 168 KB * Book Chapter PDF, 1.2 MB

Hermes-Lima, M. and Storey, K.B. 1998. Antioxidant defenses and metabolic depression. The hypothesis of preparation for oxidative stress in land snails. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. 120, 437-448. Abstract * PDF

Brooks, S.P.J. and Storey, K.B. 1997. Glycolytic controls in estivation and anoxia: a comparison of metabolic arrest in land and marine molluscs. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. A 118, 1103-1114. Abstract , PDF

Journal articles

Ramnanan, C.J., McMullen, D.C., Bielecki, A. and Storey, K.B. 2010. Regulation of sarco(endo)plasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPase (SERCA) in turtle muscle and liver during acute exposure to anoxia. J. Exp. Biol. 213, 17-25. DOI: 10.1242/jeb.036087 PDF

Ramnanan, C.J., McMullen, D.C., Groom, A.G. and Storey, K.B. 2010. The regulation of AMPK signaling in a natural state of profound metabolic rate depression. Mol. Cell. Biochem., in press.  DOI: 10.1007/s11010-009-0246-7 PDF

Ramnanan, C.J., Allan, M.E., Groom, A.G. and Storey, K.B. 2009. Regulation of global protein translation and protein degradation in aerobic dormancy. Mol. Cell. Biochem. 323, 9-20. DOI:10.1007/s11010-008-9959-2   Abstract    PDF

Ramnanan, C.J. and Storey, K.B. 2008. The regulation of thapsigargin-sensitive sarcoendoplasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPase activity in estivation.  J. Comp. Physiol. B 178, 33-45.   DOI:10.1007/s00360-007-0197-9 Abstract    PDF

Ramnanan, C.J., Groom, A.G. and Storey, K.B. 2007. Akt and its downstream targets play key roles in mediating dormancy in land snails. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. B 148, 245-255.  DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2007.10.009   Abstract   PDF

Ramnanan, C.J. and Storey, K.B. 2006. Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase regulation during hypometabolism. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 339, 7-16. Abstract   PDF   doi:10.1016/j.bbrc.2005.10.036

Ramnanan, C.J. and Storey, K.B. 2006. Suppression of Na+K+-ATPase activity during estivation in the land snail Otala lactea J. Exp. Biol. 209, 677-688. Abstract    PDF   doi:10.1242/jeb.02052

Brooks, S.P.J. and Storey, K.B. 1997 Glycolytic enzyme binding in Otala lactea hepatopancreas: effect of taxol, colchicine and cytochalasin B and cytochalasin D on the in vivo enzyme distribution. Biochem. Mol. Biol. Int. 41, 841-849. Abstract

Brooks, S.P.J. and Storey, K.B. 1996. Protein kinase involvement in land snail estivation and anoxia - protein kinase A kinetic properties and changes in second messenger compounds during depressed metabolism. Mol. Cell. Biochem. 156, 153-161. Abstract

Brooks, S.P.J. and Storey, K.B. 1995. Protein phosphorylation patterns during aestivation in the land snail Otala lactea. Mol. Cell. Biochem. 143, 7-13. Abstract

Brooks, S.P.J. and Storey, K.B. 1995. Evidence for aestivation specific proteins in Otala lactea. Mol. Cell. Biochem. 143, 15-20. Abstract

Hermes-Lima, M. and Storey, K.B. 1995. Antioxidant defenses and metabolic depression in a pulmonate land snail. Am. J. Physiol. 268, R1386-R1393. Abstract

Hermes-Lima, M. and Storey, K.B. 1995. Xanthine oxidase and xanthine dehydrogenase from an estivating snail. A possible role in the induction of oxidative stress. Z. Naturforschung C: Biosciences 50: 685-694. Abstract

Brooks, S.P.J. and Storey, K.B. 1994. Patterns of protein synthesis and phosphorylation during anoxia in the land snail Otala lactea. Can. J. Zool. 72, 856-862. Abstract

Brooks, S.P.J. and Storey, K.B. 1994. Metabolic depression in land snails: in vitro analysis of protein kinase involvement in pyruvate kinase control in isolated Otala lactea tissues. J. Exp. Zool. 269, 507-514. Abstract

Brooks, S.P.J. and Storey, K.B. 1992. Properties of pyruvate dehydrogenase from Otala lactea: control of enzyme activity during estivation. Physiol. Zool. 65, 620-633. Abstract

Whitwam, R.E. and Storey, K.B. 1991. Regulation of phosphofructokinase during estivation and anoxia in the land snail Otala lactea. Physiol. Zool. 64, 595-610. Abstract

Brooks, S.P.J. and Storey, K.B. 1990. Glycolytic enzyme binding and metabolic control in a estivation and anoxia in the land snail Otala lactea. J. Exp. Biol. 151, 193-204. Abstract

Whitwam, R.E. and Storey, K.B. 1990. Pyruvate kinase from the land snail Otala lactea: regulation by reversible phosphorylation during estivation and anoxia. J. Exp. Biol. 154, 321-337. Abstract

Churchill, T.A. and Storey K.B. 1989. Intermediary energy metabolism during dormancy and anoxia in the land snail Otala lactea. Physiol. Zool. 62, 1015-1030. Abstract