The neuronal connexin36 interacts with and is phosphorylated by CaMKII in a way similar to CaMKII interaction with glutamate receptors

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 52, 2008, Pages 20964-20969

  Alev, Cantas ^a,e,f   Urscheld, Stephanie ^b   Sonntag, Stephan ^b   Zoidl, Georg ^a   Fort, Alfredo G ^c   Höher, Thorsten ^b   Matsubara, Mamoru ^d   Willecke, Klaus ^b   Spray, David C ^c   Dermietzel, Rolf ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Kyoto University of Advanced Science   (Japan)

^e INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH AND INNOVATION   (Japan)

^f International Graduate School of Neuroscience   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain; Electrical synapse; Gap junction; Protein protein interaction; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE II; CONNEXIN 36; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 2B;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; ELECTRICAL SYNAPSE; IN VITRO STUDY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN STEM; CALCIUM-CALMODULIN-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE TYPE 2; CONNEXINS; ELECTRICAL SYNAPSES; GAP JUNCTIONS; HUMANS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN BINDING; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 58549118713     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0805408105     Document Type: Article

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