Evidence for a role of the N-terminal domain in subcellular localization of the neuronal connexin36 (Cx36)

Journal of Neuroscience Research

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 448-465

  Zoidl, G ^a   Meier, C ^a   Petrasch Parwez, E ^a   Zoidl, C ^a   Habbes, H W ^a   Kremer, M ^a   Srinivas, M ^b   Spray, D C ^b   Dermietzel, R ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Coupling; Electrical synapse; Gap junction; Intercellular communication; Site directed mutagenesis; Trafficking

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 36;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DEPHOSPHORYLATION; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GAP JUNCTION; NEUROBLASTOMA CELL; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RAT; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL COMPARTMENTATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONNEXINS; EYE PROTEINS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GAP JUNCTIONS; GAP-43 PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NEURONS; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0037103083     PISSN: 03604012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jnr.10284     Document Type: Article

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