Gap junctional channels are parts of multiprotein complexes

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Biomembranes

Volumn 1818, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1844-1865

  Hervé, Jean Claude ^a   Derangeon, Mickaël ^a   Sarrouilhe, Denis ^a   Giepmans, Ben N G ^b   Bourmeyster, Nicolas ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Connexin; Innexin; Pannexin; Protein protein; Zonula Occludens

Indexed keywords

CALMODULIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; CAVEOLIN; CONNEXIN 26; CONNEXIN 32; CONNEXIN 43; CONNEXIN 47; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; GAP JUNCTION CHANNEL; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; INNEXIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; PANNEXIN; PDZ PROTEIN; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN KINASE C; PROTEIN ZO1; PROTEIN ZO2; SCAFFOLD PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CANCER GROWTH; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL SELECTION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHANNEL GATING; COMPLEX FORMATION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; TIGHT JUNCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CALMODULIN; CELL COMMUNICATION; CYTOSKELETON; GAP JUNCTIONS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIGHT JUNCTIONS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84861634571     PISSN: 00052736     EISSN: 18792642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2011.12.009     Document Type: Review

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