Synthesis and assembly of connexins in vitro into homomeric and heteromeric functional gap junction hemichannels

Biochemical Journal

Volumn 339, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 247-253

  Ahmad, Shoeb ^a   Diez, Juan A ^a   George, Christopher H ^a   Evans, W Howard ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Connexin biosynthesis; Gap junction assembly; Oligomerization

Indexed keywords

AEQUORIN; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; LIPOSOME; OLIGOMER;

ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CROSS LINKING; CYTOPLASM; DOG; GAP JUNCTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GOLGI COMPLEX; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; LIVER; MICROSOME; MICROSOME MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PERMEABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSLATION; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SUCROSE GRADIENT;

ANIMALS; BIOPOLYMERS; CONNEXINS; DOGS; GAP JUNCTIONS; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANES; LIPOSOMES; MICROSOMES; PRECIPITIN TESTS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 0033560718     PISSN: 02646021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/0264-6021:3390247     Document Type: Article

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