Structural basis for the selective permeability of channels made of communicating junction proteins

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Biomembranes

Volumn 1828, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 51-68

  Ek Vitorin, Jose F ^a   Burt, Janis M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Gap junction; Permeability; Regulation; Selectivity; Synchronization

Indexed keywords

CALMODULIN; CONNEXIN 26; CONNEXIN 30; CONNEXIN 32; CONNEXIN 37; CONNEXIN 40; CONNEXIN 43; CYCLIC AMP; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN;

ALLOSTERISM; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CELL JUNCTION; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; CHANNEL GATING; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; DIFFUSION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GAP JUNCTION; ION PERMEABILITY; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; STATIC ELECTRICITY; STOCHASTIC MODEL; SURFACE CHARGE;

ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CONNEXINS; GAP JUNCTIONS; HUMANS; ION CHANNEL GATING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL;

EID: 84870066640     PISSN: 00052736     EISSN: 18792642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2012.02.003     Document Type: Review

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