Differential phosphorylation of the gap junction protein connexin43 in junctional communication-competent and -deficient cell lines

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 111, Issue 5, 1990, Pages 2077-2088

  Musil, Linda S ^a   Cunningham, Bruce A ^b   Edelman, Gerald M ^b   Goodenough, Daniel A ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL JUNCTION; KIDNEY CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT;

ANIMAL; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL LINE; CONNEXINS; INTERCELLULAR JUNCTIONS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TRANSFECTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0025155347     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.111.5.2077     Document Type: Article

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