The pattern of disulfide linkages in the extracellular loop regions of connexin 32 suggests a model for the docking interface of gap junctions

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 140, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1187-1197

  Foote, Cynthia I ^a,b   Zhou, Lan ^a   Zhu, Xing ^a   Nicholson, Bruce J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DISULFIDE BOND; ELECTROPHORESIS; EXTRACELLULAR CALCIUM; GAP JUNCTION; MEMBRANE BINDING; METAZOON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CONNEXINS; DISULFIDES; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GAP JUNCTIONS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; RABBITS; XENOPUS;

ANIMALIA; METAZOA;

EID: 0032498942     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.140.5.1187     Document Type: Article

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