Structure of the connexin 26 gap junction channel at 3.5 Å resolution

Nature

Volumn 458, Issue 7238, 2009, Pages 597-602

  Maeda, Shoji ^a   Nakagawa, So ^a   Suga, Michihiro ^a   Yamashita, Eiki ^a   Oshima, Atsunori ^b   Fujiyoshi, Yoshinori ^b   Tsukihara, Tomitake ^a,c  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HYOGO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 26;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CYTOPLASM; HOMINID; ION; MEMBRANE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PROTEIN; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GAP JUNCTION; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MOLECULAR SIZE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CONNEXINS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; GAP JUNCTIONS; HUMANS; ION CHANNEL GATING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; SPODOPTERA;

EID: 63849141447     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07869     Document Type: Article

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