Molecular connexin partner remodeling orchestrates connexin traffic: From physiology to pathophysiology

Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 407-423

  Gilleron, Jérôme ^a,c   Carette, Diane ^a,b   Chevallier, Daniel ^a   Segretain, Dominique ^b   Pointis, Georges ^a  

^a CENTRE MÉDITERRANÉEN DE MÉDECINE MOLÉCULAIRE C3M   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Connexin; diseases; endocytosis; interaction protein protein; partners; physiology; trafficking

Indexed keywords

GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN;

APOPTOSIS; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL INCLUSION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TRANSPORT; ENDOCYTOSIS; INTERNALIZATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW;

CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CONNEXINS; ENDOCYTOSIS; GAP JUNCTIONS; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NEOPLASMS; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTEOLYSIS;

EID: 84865452759     PISSN: 10409238     EISSN: 15497798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10409238.2012.683482     Document Type: Review

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