Connexin 35/36 is phosphorylated at regulatory sites in the retina

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 363-375

  Kothmann, W Wade ^a,b   Li, Xiaofan ^a   Burr, Gary S ^a,c   O'Brien, John ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Connexin36; Gap junctions; Light adaptation; Phospho specific antibodies; Phosphorylation

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; CONNEXIN 35; CONNEXIN 36; CONNXIN 35 ANTIBODY; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PROTEIN; SERINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAP JUNCTION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NIGHT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETINA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADAPTATION, OCULAR; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASS; CELL MEMBRANE; CONNEXINS; CYCLIC AMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; EYE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RETINA; SERINE;

EID: 34548501240     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: 14698714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S095252380707037X     Document Type: Article

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