RhoA GTPase switch controls Cx43-hemichannel activity through the contractile system

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Ponsaerts, Raf ^a   D'hondt, Catheleyne ^a   Hertens, Fréderic ^a   Parys, Jan B ^a   Leybaert, Luc ^b   Vereecke, Johan ^a   Himpens, Bernard ^a   Bultynck, Geert ^a  

^a LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR SIGNALING   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CONNEXIN 43; EXOENZYME C3; MYOSIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; RHO GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; THROMBIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BOVINE CORNEAL ENDOTHELIAL CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE SILENCING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; NONHUMAN; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PROTEINASE INHIBITION;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CELLS, CULTURED; CONNEXIN 43; ENDOTHELIUM; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; RHOA GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

BOVINAE;

EID: 84864471439     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0042074     Document Type: Article

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