Degradation of connexins and gap junctions

FEBS Letters

Volumn 588, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1221-1229

  Falk, Matthias M ^a   Kells, Rachael M ^a   Berthoud, Viviana M ^b  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Autophagosome; Connexin; Gap junction; Lysosome; Proteasome; Ubiquitin

Indexed keywords

AUTOPHAGOSOME; CONNEXIN; GAP JUNCTION; LYSOSOME; PROTEASOME; UBIQUITIN;

ANIMALS; CONNEXINS; ENDOSOMES; GAP JUNCTIONS; HUMANS; LYSOSOMES; PROTEASOME ENDOPEPTIDASE COMPLEX; PROTEOLYSIS; UBIQUITINATION;

EID: 84898836325     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: 18733468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2014.01.031     Document Type: Conference Paper

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