Publications

R. Szulcek C.N. Johnson, J.T Pearson and Vasco Sequeira  Editorial: Bridging techniques: (2022) Basic science of molecules, cellular systems, and whole-organ physiology (2022) Frontiers in Physiology, March 24th.

Williams, R.B.; Johnson, C.N. A Review of Calcineurin Biophysics with Implications for Cardiac Physiology. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 2021, 22, 11565. 

Bin Sun, Xuan Fang, Christopher N. Johnson, Garrett Hauck, Youngjun Kou, Jonathan P. Davis Peter M. Kekenes-Huskey (2021) Non-Canonical Interaction between Calmodulin and Calcineurin Contributes to the Differential Regulation of Plant-Derived Calmodulins on Calcineurin  J. Chem. Inf. Model.

D. Julia Trembinski, Janina Sommer, Ariane Fischer, Chao-Chung Kuo, Ivan G. Costa, Christopher N. Johnson, Alexander Spring-Connell, Manuel Kaulich, Stanislas Werfel, Stefan Engelhardt, Marc N. Hirt, Kaja Yorgan, Thomas Eschenhagen, Luisa Kirchhof, Patrick Hofmann, Nazha Hamdani, Corinne Bischof, Jaya Krishnan, Riekelt H. Houtkooper, Stefanie Dimmeler, Reinier A. Boon (2020), Sarrah is an Aging-Regulated Anti-Apoptotic Long Non-Coding RNA in Cardiomyocytes Augmenting Recovery from Acute Myocardial Infarction. Nature Communications, April 27th, (11) 2039.   

 

Walter J. Chazin^ and Christopher N. Johnson^. (2020) Calmodulin Mutations Associated with Heart Arrhythmia: A Status Report. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Feb 12th 21, 1418. ^corresponding authors

 

Josine M. de Winter, Joery P. Molenaar, Michaela Yuen, Robbert van der Pijl, Shen Shengyi, Stefan Conijn, Menne Willigenburg, Sylvia J.P. Bogaards, Esmee van Kleef, Saskia Lassche, Malin Persson, Dilson Rassier, Tamar E. Sztal, Avnika A. Ruparelia, Robert J. Bryson-Richardson, Christopher N. Johnson, Manuela Marabita, Bert Blaauw, Richard J. Rodenburg, Benno Kϋsters, Jonne Doorduin, Alan H Beggs, Henk Granzier, Ken Campbell, Weikang Ma, Thomas Irving, Edoardo Malfatti, Norma Romero, Baziel G.M. van Engelen, Nicol C. Voermans, and Coen A.C. Ottenheijm (2020). Thin filament-based impaired muscle relaxation kinetics in KBTBD13-related nemaline myopathy (NEM6). Journal of Clinical Investigation, 130(2): 754-767.  

 

Christopher N. Johnson^, Rekha Pattanayek, Franck Potet, Robyn T. Rebbeck, Daniel J. Blackwell, Roman Nikolaienko, Vasco Sequeira, Remy Le Meur, Przemysław B. Radwański, Jonathan P. Davis, Aleksey V. Zima, Razvan L. Cornea, Steven M. Damo, Sandor Györke, Alfred L. George Jr. and Bjorn C. Knollmann (2019). The CaMKII inhibitor KN93-calmodulin interaction and implications for calmodulin tuning of NaV1.5 and RyR2 function. Cell Calcium, 82 102063. ^corresponding author

 

Lisa M. Wren, Juan Jiménez-Jáimez, Zahurul A. Buihyan,  Saleh Al-Ghamdi, Jumana Y. Al-Aama, Zuhair Al-Hassnan, Roger Y. Foo,Franck Potet,  Christopher N. Johnson, Miriam C. Aziz, Gemma L. Carvill, Juan-Pablo Kaski, Lia Crotti,  Francesca Perin,  Lorenzo Monserrat,  Paul W. Burridge,  Peter J. Schwartz, Walter J. Chazin, Alfred L. George, Jr. (2019). Genetic Mosaicism in Calmodulinopathies. Circulation: Genomic and Precision Medicine, 12(9) 375-385.

 

Christopher N. Johnson^ (2019). Calcium modulation of cardiac sodium channels. Journal of Physiology, Feb 1, doi.org/10.1113/JP277553. ^corresponding author

 

Przemysław B. Radwański, Christopher N. Johnson, Sándor Györke Rengasayee Veeraraghavan (2018). Cardiac Arrhythmias as Manifestations of Nanopathies: An Emerging View, Frontiers in Physiology, Sept 9: 1228.

 

Christopher N. Johnson^, Franck Potet, Matthew K. Thompson, Brett M. Kroncke, Andrew M. Glazer, Markus W. Voehler, Bjorn C. Knollmann, Alfred L. George, Jr., and ^Walter J. Chazin (2018). A Mechanism of Calmodulin Modulation of the Human Cardiac Sodium Channel. Structure, Mar 28, 683-694. ^corresponding authors

 

Walweel K, Gomez-Hurtado N, Oo YW, Beard NA, Dos Remedios C, Johnson CN, Chazin WJ, van Helden DF, Knollmann BC, Laver DR (2017). Calmodulin Mutants Linked to Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia Fail to Inhibit Human RyR2 Channels. J. Am. Coll. Cardiol., Jul 4; 70(1):115-117. 

 

Pipilas DC, Johnson CN, Webster G, Schlaepfer J, Fellmann F, Sekarski N, Wren LM, Ogorodnik KV, Chazin DM, Chazin WJ, Crotti L, Bhuiyan ZA, George AL Jr. (2016) Novel calmodulin mutations associated with congenital long QT syndrome affect calcium current in human cardiomyocytes. Heart Rhythm,  Oct;13(10):2012-9.

 

Gomez-Hurtado N, Boczek NJ, Kryshtal DO, Johnson CN, Sun J, Nitu FR, Cornea RL, Chazin WJ, Calvert ML, Tester DJ, Ackerman MJ, Knollmann BC. (2016) Novel CPVT-Associated Calmodulin Mutation in CALM3 (CALM3-A103V) Activates Arrhythmogenic Ca Waves and Sparks. Circ. Arrhythm. Electrophysiol. Aug;9(8)

 

Boczek NJ, Gomez-Hurtado N, Ye D, Calvert ML, Tester DJ, Kryshtal DO, Hwang HS, Johnson CN, Chazin WJ, Loporcaro CG, Shah M, Papez AL, Lau YR, Kanter R, Knollmann BC, Ackerman MJ. (2016) Spectrum and Prevalence of CALM1-, CALM2-, and CALM3-Encoded Calmodulin Variants in Long QT Syndrome and Functional Characterization of a Novel Long QT Syndrome-Associated Calmodulin Missense Variant, E141G. Circ. Cardiovasc. Genet., Apr;9(2):136-46.

 

Makita N*, Yagihara N*, Crotti L*, Johnson CN*, Beckmann BM, Roh MS, Shigemizu D, Lichtner P, Ishikawa T, Aiba T, Homfray T, Behr ER, Klug D, Denjoy I, Mastantuono E, Theisen D, Tsunoda T, Satake W, Toda T, Nakagawa H, Tsuji Y, Tsuchiya T, Yamamoto H, Miyamoto Y, Endo N, Kimura A, Ozaki K, Motomura H, Suda K, Tanaka T, Schwartz PJ, Meitinger T, Kääb S, Guicheney P, Shimizu W, Bhuiyan ZA, Watanabe H, Chazin WJ, George AL Jr. (2014) Novel calmodulin mutations associated with congenital arrhythmia susceptibility. Circ. Cardiovasc Genet., Aug;7(4):466-74.  *Authors contributed equally to this work

 

Johnson C.N., Damo S.M., Chazin W.J., EF-hand Calcium Binding Proteins (2014) Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, DOI: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0003056.pub3

 

Hwang HS, Nitu FR, Yang Y, Walweel K, Pereira L, Johnson CN, Faggioni M, Chazin WJ, Laver D, George AL Jr, Cornea RL, Bers DM, Knollmann BC. (2014) Divergent regulation of ryanodine receptor 2 calcium release channels by arrhythmogenic human calmodulin missense mutants. Circ. Res. 2014 Mar 28; 114(7):1114-24.

 

Crotti L, Johnson CN, Graf E, De Ferrari GM, Cuneo BF, Ovadia M, Papagiannis J, Feldkamp MD, Rathi SG, Kunic JD, Pedrazzini M, Wieland T, Lichtner P, Beckmann BM, Clark T, Shaffer C, Benson DW, Kääb S, Meitinger T, Strom TM, Chazin WJ, Schwartz PJ, George AL Jr. (2013) Calmodulin mutations associated with recurrent cardiac arrest in infants. Circulation, 127 (9):1009-17.

 

Johnson C. N., Spring A. M., Desai S., Cunningham R. P., Germann M. W. (2011) DNA sequence context conceals alpha anomeric lesions, J. Mol. Biol., 416, 425-437.

 

+Johnson C. N., Spring A. M., Shaw B. R., Germann M. W. (2011) Structural basis of the RNase H1 activity on stereo regular borano phosphonate DNA / RNA hybrids, Biochemistry, 50, 3903-3912. +Abstract featured in Global Medical Discovery

 

Germann M., Johnson C., Spring A. (2012) Recognition of damaged DNA: structure and dynamic markers, Med. Res. Rev. 32, 659-683 (available online Nov. 2010).

 

Germann M. W., Johnson C. N., Spring A. M. (2009) Unusual DNA structure and DNA damage recognition: structure and dynamic markers, CHIMIA, 63, 731-736.

 

Mazurek A., Johnson C. N., Germann M. W., and Fishel, R. (2009) Sequence context effect for hMSH2-hMSH6 mismatched-dependent activation, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 106, 4177-4182.