• Mitochondrial Patch Clamp of Beige Adipocytes Reveals UCP1-Positive and UCP1-Negative Cells Both Exhibiting Futile Creatine Cycling

Bertholet AM, Kazak L, Chouchani ET, Bogaczyńska MG, Paranjpe I, Wainwright GL, Bétourné A, Kajimura S, Spiegelman BM, Kirichok Y. Cell Metabolism 2017; 25: 811–822

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• UCP1: A transporter for H⁺ and fatty acid anions

Bertholet AM, Kirichok Y. Biochimie 2016; 134: 28-34. Review

 

• Perinatal Licensing of Thermogenesis by IL-33 and ST2

Odegaard JI, Lee MW, Sogawa Y, Bertholet AM, Locksley RM, Weinberg DE, Kirichok Y, Deo RC, Chawla A. Cell 2016; 166: 841-54.

 

• Keeping a lid on calcium uptake

Garg V, Kirichok Y. Elife 2016; 5. pii: e17293. Review

 

• Unconventional endocannabinoid signaling governs sperm activation via the sex hormone progesterone

Miller MR, Mannowetz N, Iavarone AT, Safavi R, Gracheva EO, Smith JF, Hill RZ, Bautista DM, Kirichok Y, Lishko PV. Science 2016; 352: 555-9.

 

• Signaling the differences between cilia

Lishko P, Kirichok Y. Elife 2015; 4. pii: e12760. Review

 

• Mitochondrial Ca²⁺ uniporter and CaMKII in heart

Fieni F, Johnson DE, Hudmon A, Kirichok Y. Nature 2014; 513: E1-2.

 

• Disruption of the principal, progesterone-activated sperm Ca²⁺ channel in a CatSper2-deficient infertile patient

Smith JF, Syritsyna O, Fellous M, Serres C, Mannowetz N, Kirichok Y*, and Lishko PV*. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2013; 110: 6823-8 *- co-corresponding authors

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• Sperm patch-clamp

Lishko PV, Clapham DE, Navarro B, Kirichok Y. Methods in Enzymology 2013; 525: 59-83

 

• Activity of the mitochondrial calcium uniporter varies greatly between tissues

Fieni F, Bae Lee S, Jan YN, Kirichok Y. Nature Commun 2012; 3: 1317.

 

• Mechanism of fatty acid-dependent UCP1 uncoupling in brown fat mitochondria

Fedorenko A, Lishko PV, Kirichok Y. Cell 2012; 151: 400-13 PMID: 23063128

 

• The control of male fertility by spermatozoan ion channels

Lishko PV, Kirichok Y, Ren D, Navarro B, Chung JJ, Clapham DE. Annual Reviews Physiology 2012; 74: 453-75. Review

 

• Rediscovering sperm ion channels with the patch-clamp technique

Kirichok Y, Lishko PV. Molecular Human Reproduction 2011; 17: 478-99. Review

 

• Progesterone activates the principal Ca²⁺ channel of human sperm

Lishko PV, Botchkina IL, Kirichok Y. Nature 2011; 471: 387-91

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• The role of Hv1 and CatSper channels in sperm activation

Lishko PV, Kirichok Y. Journal of Physiology 2010; 588: 4667-72. Review

 

• Acid extrusion from human spermatozoa is mediated by flagellar voltage-gated proton channel

Lishko PV, Botchkina IL, Fedorenko A, Kirichok Y. Cell 2010; 140; 327-337

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• KSper, a pH-sensitive K⁺ current that controls sperm membrane potential

Navarro B, Kirichok Y, Clapham DE. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2007; 104: 7688-92

 

• Whole-cell patch clamp measurements of spermatozoa reveal an alkaline-activated Ca²⁺ channel

Kirichok Y, Navarro B, Clapham DE. Nature 2006; 439: 737-40.

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• The mitochondrial Ca²⁺ uniporter is a highly selective channel

Kirichok Y, Krapivinsky G, Clapham DE. Nature 2004; 427: 360-364.

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