Phosphorylation and truncation sites of bovine lens connexin 46 and connexin 50

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 898-904

  Wang, Zhen ^a   Schey, Kevin L ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

connexin 46; connexin 50; lens fiber cells; mass spectrometry; phosphorylation; proteomics; truncation

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 46; CONNEXIN 50; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; SERINE; THREONINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; CYTOPLASM; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LENS; LENS EPITHELIUM; LENS FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CONNEXINS; CRYSTALLINS; EYE PROTEINS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHORYLATION; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION;

EID: 70350716453     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2009.07.015     Document Type: Article

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