Anti-innexin 2 aptamers specifically inhibit the heterologous interaction of the innexin 2 and innexin 3 carboxyl-termini in vitro

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 388, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 561-568

  Knieps, Martin ^a   Herrmann, Sonja ^a   Lehmann, Corinna ^a   Löer, Birgit ^a   Hoch, Michael ^a   Famulok, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aptamer; Drosophila; Gap junctions; In vitro selection; Innexin 2; Innexin 3

Indexed keywords

APTAMER; INNEXIN 2; INNEXIN 3; PROTEIN; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL POLARITY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO CELL; EPITHELIZATION; GAP JUNCTION; IN VITRO STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; RNA BINDING; RNA ISOLATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; APTAMERS, NUCLEOTIDE; BASE SEQUENCE; CONNEXINS; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 34249995953     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: 14374315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BC.2007.074     Document Type: Article

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