Functional requirement for a highly conserved charged residue at position 75 in the gap junction protein connexin 32

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 288, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 3609-3619

  Abrams, Charles K ^a   Islam, Mahee ^a   Mahmoud, Rola ^a   Kwon, Taekyung ^b   Bargiello, Thaddeus A ^b   Freidin, Mona M ^a  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL FUNCTIONS; CHARGED RESIDUES; DISEASE TREATMENT; EXPRESSION LEVELS; FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENT; GAP JUNCTION PROTEINS; GAP JUNCTIONS; HUMAN DISEASE; INHERITED DISORDERS; LOW LEVEL; PERIPHERAL NERVES; POSITIVE CHARGES; WHOLE CELL PATCH CLAMP;

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGY;

ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY;

ARGININE; CONNEXIN 26; CONNEXIN 32; CONNEXIN 43; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAP JUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HEREDITARY MOTOR SENSORY NEUROPATHY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; WHOLE CELL; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; ARGININE; CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH DISEASE; CONNEXINS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; ION CHANNEL GATING; MICE; MUTAGENESIS; MUTANT PROTEINS; MUTATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; STATIC ELECTRICITY; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 84873286767     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M112.392670     Document Type: Article

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