Gap junctional complexes: From partners to functions

Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology

Volumn 94, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 29-65

  Hervé, Jean Claude ^a   Bourmeyster, Nicolas ^a   Sarrouilhe, Denis ^a   Duffy, Heather S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^b Faculté des Sciences Fondamentales et Appliquées ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Channel assembly; Channel gating; Connexin; Gap junctions; Intracellular trafficking

Indexed keywords

GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL JUNCTION; CELL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CONNEXINS; GAP JUNCTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 34248994869     PISSN: 00796107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2007.03.010     Document Type: Review

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