Analysis of Trafficking, Stability and Function of Human Connexin 26 Gap Junction Channels with Deafness-Causing Mutations in the Fourth Transmembrane Helix

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Ambrosi, Cinzia ^a   Walker, Amy E ^a   DePriest, Adam D ^c   Cone, Angela C ^a   Lu, Connie ^a   Badger, John ^d   Skerrett, I Martha ^c   Sosinsky, Gina E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c BUFFALO STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

^d DeltaG Technologies   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 26;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACULOVIRUS; CONNEXIN 26 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAP JUNCTION; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAMMAL CELL; MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SF9 CELL; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CELL MEMBRANE; CONNEXINS; DEAFNESS; GAP JUNCTIONS; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; PERMEABILITY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SF9 CELLS;

EID: 84881604215     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070916     Document Type: Article

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