Atrial fibrillation-associated Connexin40 mutants make hemichannels and synergistically form gap junction channels with novel properties

FEBS Letters

Volumn 588, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1458-1464

  Patel, Dakshesh ^a   Gemel, Joanna ^b   Xu, Qin ^a   Simon, Adria R ^b   Lin, Xianming ^a   Matiukas, Arvydas ^a   Beyer, Eric C ^b   Veenstra, Richard D ^a  

^a State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Channel conductance; Connexin40; Gap junctions; Hemichannels

Indexed keywords

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CHANNEL CONDUCTANCE; CONNEXIN40; GAP JUNCTIONS; HEMICHANNELS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CONNEXINS; GAP JUNCTIONS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MUTATION;

EID: 84898896277     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: 18733468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2014.01.010     Document Type: Conference Paper

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