Direct integration of cell-free-synthesized connexin-43 into liposomes and hemichannel formation

FEBS Journal

Volumn 277, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 3343-3352

  Moritani, Yuki ^a,b   Nomura, Shin Ichiro M ^a,c   Morita, Ikuo ^a   Akiyoshi, Kazunari ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NTT DOCOMO   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

cell free membrane protein synthesis; chaperone like function for hemichannels; connexin; liposome; membrane protein orientation

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 43; LIPOSOME;

ARTICLE; CELL FREE SYSTEM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LIPID INTERACTION; PROTEOLIPOSOME;

ANIMALS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL MEMBRANE; CONNEXIN 43; CONNEXINS; HUMANS; LIPOSOMES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; SOLUBILITY; WATER;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 77955246394     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2010.07736.x     Document Type: Article

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