Identification of amino acid residues lining the pore of a gap junction channel

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 159, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 349-359

  Skerrett, I M ^a   Aronowitz, J ^a   Shin, J H ^a   Cymes, G ^b   Kasperek, E ^a   Cao, F L ^c   Nicholson, B J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Connexin32; Pore lining; SCAM; Xenopus oocyte expression

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CYSTEINE; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CHANNEL GATING; CHELATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; GAP JUNCTION; GENE MAPPING; HYDROPHOBICITY; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; ION TRANSPORT; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; OOCYTE; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STEREOSPECIFICITY; XENOPUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; CONNEXINS; CYSTEINE; GAP JUNCTIONS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; OOCYTES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RATS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; XENOPUS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0037191101     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200207060     Document Type: Article

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