Assembly of connexins and MP26 in lens fiber plasma membranes studied by SDS-fracture immunolabeling

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 111, Issue 15, 1998, Pages 2109-2120

  Dunia, I ^a   Recouvreur, M ^a   Nicolas, P ^a   Kumar, N ^b   Bloemendal, H ^c   Benedetti, E L ^a,c  

^a INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

^b SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Connexins; Eye lens; Freeze fracture immunogold labeling; Junctional assembly; MP26

Indexed keywords

GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MEMBRANE; IMMUNOGOLD STAINING; LENS FIBER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY;

ANIMALS; AQUAPORINS; CONNEXINS; EYE PROTEINS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; FREEZE FRACTURING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERCELLULAR JUNCTIONS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; SODIUM DODECYL SULFATE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031709970     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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