Subcytotoxic mercury chloride inhibits gap junction intercellular communication by a redox-and phosphorylation-mediated mechanism

Free Radical Biology and Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 916-927

  Piccoli, Claudia ^a   D'Aprile, Annamaria ^a   Scrima, Rosella ^a   Ambrosi, Luigi ^b   Zefferino, Roberto ^a   Capitanio, Nazzareno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FOGGIA   (Italy)

^b IRCCS   (Italy)

Author keywords

connexin 43; gap junction intercellular communication; mercury toxicity; mitochondria; reactive oxygen species; redox signaling

Indexed keywords

CALPHOSTIN C; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; MERCURY CHLORIDE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; RETINOIC ACID; THIOL DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; ASSAY; CELL COMMUNICATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CYTOTOXICITY; GAP JUNCTION; GAP JUNCTION INTERCELLULAR COMMUNICATION; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; KERATINOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RESPIRATORY CHAIN;

CELL COMMUNICATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CYCLIC AMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; CYTOTOXINS; FLUORESCENT DYES; GAP JUNCTIONS; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE DISULFIDE; HUMANS; ISOQUINOLINES; KERATINOCYTES; MERCURIC CHLORIDE; MITOCHONDRIA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN KINASE C; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRETINOIN;

EID: 84856691328     PISSN: 08915849     EISSN: 18734596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2011.12.018     Document Type: Article

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