Assembly of the cochlear gap junction macromolecular complex requires connexin 26

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1598-1607

  Kamiya, Kazusaku ^a   Yum, Sabrina W ^b,c   Kurebayashi, Nagomi ^d   Muraki, Miho ^a   Ogawa, Kana ^a   Karasawa, Keiko ^a   Miwa, Asuka ^a   Guo, Xueshui ^b   Gotoh, Satoru ^e   Sugitani, Yoshinobu ^e   Yamanaka, Hitomi ^e   Ito Kawashima, Shioko ^e   Iizuka, Takashi ^a   Sakurai, Takashi ^d   Noda, Tetsuo ^e,f   Minowa, Osamu ^e,f   Ikeda, Katsuhisa ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e CANCER INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^f RIKEN BIORESOURCE CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVEOLIN 2; CONNEXIN 26;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDOCYTOSIS; GAP JUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; NEUROEPITHELIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CAVEOLIN 1; CAVEOLIN 2; COCHLEA; CONNEXINS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENDOCYTOSIS; GAP JUNCTIONS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; MUTATION; PROTEOLYSIS;

EID: 84897526185     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: 15588238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI67621     Document Type: Article

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