Innexins: Members of an evolutionarily conserved family of gap-junction proteins

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Biomembranes

Volumn 1711, Issue 2 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 225-245

  Phelan, Pauline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis elegans; Connexin; Drosophila; Gap junction; Innexin; Intercellular channel

Indexed keywords

GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL SURVIVAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GAP JUNCTION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENOME; GERM CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; INVERTEBRATE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORPHOGENESIS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUTANT; NEUROBLAST; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; REDUCTION; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ARTHROPODA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; METAZOA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 20444415972     PISSN: 00052736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2004.10.004     Document Type: Review

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