Human gap junction protein connexin31: Molecular cloning and expression analysis

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 248, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 910-915

  Wenzel, Keirut ^a   Manthey, Dieter ^a   Willecke, Klaus ^a   Grzeschik, Karl Heinz ^b   Traub, Otto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Connexin31; Gap junction; Intercellular communication; Keratinocytes; Potential sites of phosphorylation

Indexed keywords

GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 1P; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYBRID CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; KERATINOCYTE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 0032581383     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.1998.9070     Document Type: Article

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