Connexin43 phosphorylation in brain, cardiac, endothelial and epithelial tissues

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Biomembranes

Volumn 1818, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1985-1992

  Márquez Rosado, Lucrecia ^a   Solan, Joell L ^a   Dunn, Clarence A ^a   Norris, Rachael P ^a   Lampe, Paul D ^a  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell signalling; Connexin; Gap junction; Phosphorylation; Phosphospecific antibodies

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 26; CONNEXIN 30; CONNEXIN 36; CONNEXIN 37; CONNEXIN 40; CONNEXIN 43; CONNEXIN 45; CONNEXIN 46; CYCLIC AMP; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE P38; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ANTIGEN BINDING; ASTROCYTE; ATHEROGENESIS; BRAIN; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CHANNEL GATING; DISEASE MODEL; ENDOTHELIUM; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EPIDERMIS; EPITHELIUM; GAP JUNCTION; GLIA CELL; HEART; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART PROTECTION; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; ISCHEMIC PRECONDITIONING; MITOCHONDRIAL PERMEABILITY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OVARY FOLLICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DEPHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKIN TUMOR;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CONNEXIN 43; ENDOTHELIUM; EPITHELIUM; GAP JUNCTIONS; GENOME, HUMAN; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MYOCARDIUM; NEOPLASMS; PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84861643461     PISSN: 00052736     EISSN: 18792642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2011.07.028     Document Type: Review

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