Two tyrosine-based sorting signals in the Cx43 C-terminus cooperate to mediate gap junction endocytosis

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 24, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 2834-2848

  Fong, John T ^a   Kells, Rachael M ^a   Falk, Matthias M ^a  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTOR PROTEIN; AMINO ACID; CLATHRIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CONNEXIN 43; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEIN DAB2; TYROSINE; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE E3; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE NEDD4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CYTOPLASM; ENDOCYTOSIS; GAP JUNCTION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HALF LIFE TIME; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; INTERNALIZATION; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADAPTOR PROTEIN COMPLEX 2; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CELL MEMBRANE; CLATHRIN; CONNEXIN 43; ENDOCYTOSIS; GAP JUNCTIONS; HALF-LIFE; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; RATS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TYROSINE;

EID: 84884468083     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: 19394586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E13-02-0111     Document Type: Article

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