Heteromerization of innexin gap junction proteins regulates epithelial tissue organization in Drosophila

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1676-1685

  Lehmann, Corinna ^a   Lechner, Hildegard ^a   Löer, Birgit ^a   Knieps, Martin ^a   Herrmann, Sonja ^a   Famulok, Michael ^a   Bauer, Reinhard ^a   Hoch, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADHERIN; DE CADHERIN; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; INNEXIN 2; INNEXIN 3; PANNEXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; INX2 PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; INX3 PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL ADHESION; CELL COMMUNICATION AND CELL CONTACT; CELL POLARITY; CYTOPLASM; DROSOPHILA; EPITHELIUM; FRACTIONATION; GAP JUNCTION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; HETEROMERIZATION; INNEXIN2 GENE; INNEXIN3 GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGOMERIZATION; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRANSGENICS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CELL JUNCTION; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DIMERIZATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MORPHOGENESIS; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DEUTEROSTOMIA; PROTOSTOMIA; VERTEBRATA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CADHERINS; CELL POLARITY; CONNEXINS; CYTOPLASM; DIMERIZATION; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EPITHELIUM; GAP JUNCTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA INTERFERENCE;

EID: 33745427413     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E05-11-1059     Document Type: Article

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