Gap junction channel protein Innexin 2 is essential for epithelial morphogenesis in the Drosophila embryo

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 2992-3004

  Bauer, Reinhard ^a   Lehmann, Corinna ^a   Martini, Julia ^a   Eckardt, Franka ^a   Hoch, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; INNEXIN; INNEXIN 1; INNEXIN 2; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DEATH; CELL JUNCTION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DROSOPHILA; EPITHELIUM; GAP JUNCTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INVERTEBRATE; MEMBRANE DOMAIN; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TISSUE GROWTH; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CONNEXINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EPITHELIUM; GAP JUNCTIONS; MORPHOGENESIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 2542471450     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E04-01-0056     Document Type: Article

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