Six Innexins Contribute to Electrical Coupling of C. elegans Body-Wall Muscle

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Liu, Ping ^a   Chen, Bojun ^a   Altun, Zeynep F ^b   Gross, Maegan J ^a   Shan, Alan ^a   Schuman, Benjamin ^a   Hall, David H ^b   Wang, Zhao Wen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; INNEXIN 1; INNEXIN 10; INNEXIN 11; INNEXIN 16; INNEXIN 18; UNC 9 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL JUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATION CONTRACTION COUPLING; GAP JUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CONNEXINS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESSES; GAP JUNCTIONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MUSCLES; MUTATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

EID: 84885094296     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076877     Document Type: Article

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