Drosophila shaking-B protein forms gap junctions in paired Xenopus oocytes

Nature

Volumn 391, Issue 6663, 1998, Pages 181-184

  Phelan, Pauline ^a   Stebbings, Lucy A ^a   Baines, Richard A ^a,b   Bacon, Jonathan P ^a   Davies, Jane A ^a   Ford, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GAP JUNCTION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONNEXINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GAP JUNCTIONS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; OOCYTES; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TRANSFECTION; XENOPUS;

EID: 0032495496     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/34426     Document Type: Article

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