In vivo evidence for the involvement of the carboxy terminal domain in assembling connexin 36 at the electrical synapse

Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 47-58

  Helbig, Ingo ^a   Sammler, Esther ^d   Eliava, Marina ^b   Bolshakov, Alexey P ^d   Rozov, Andrei ^d   Bruzzone, Roberto ^c   Monyer, Hannah ^b   Hormuzdi, Sheriar Gustad ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c HKU PASTEUR RESEARCH CENTRE   (Hong Kong)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assembly; Connexin 36; Electrical synapse; Gap junction; Intercellular channel; Transgenic; ZO 1

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 36; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; SCAFFOLD PROTEIN; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRICAL SYNAPSE; GAP JUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERNEURON; MOUSE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; ANIMAL; CEREBELLUM; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; HELA CELL LINE; HIPPOCAMPUS; METABOLISM; OLFACTORY BULB; OOCYTE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; ULTRASTRUCTURE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

MUS MUSCULUS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; CEREBELLUM; CONNEXINS; ELECTRICAL SYNAPSES; HELA CELLS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; OLFACTORY BULB; OOCYTES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 77955090489     PISSN: 10447431     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mcn.2010.05.008     Document Type: Article

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