S-nitrosation of mitochondrial connexin 43 regulates mitochondrial function

Basic Research in Cardiology

Volumn 109, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Soetkamp, Daniel ^a,b   Nguyen, Tiffany T ^a   Menazza, Sara ^a   Hirschhäuser, Christine ^b   Hendgen Cotta, Ulrike B ^c   Rassaf, Tienush ^c   Schlüter, Klaus D ^b   Boengler, Kerstin ^b   Murphy, Elizabeth ^a   Schulz, Rainer ^b  

^a NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY GIESSEN   (Germany)

^c HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cardioprotection; Connexin hemichannel; Ischemic preconditioning (IPC); Nitric oxide (NO); S nitrosation (SNO)

Indexed keywords

CARBENOXOLONE; CONNEXIN 43; LUCIFER YELLOW; MITOCHONDRIAL CONNEXIN 43; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; NITRIC OXIDE; POTASSIUM; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SODIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART MITOCHONDRION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART PROTECTION; INTERFIBRILLAR MITOCHONDRION; ISCHEMIC PRECONDITIONING; MALE; MITOCHONDRIAL PERMEABILITY; MOUSE; NITROSATION; NONHUMAN; POTASSIUM TRANSPORT; RAT; REPERFUSION INJURY; S NITROSATION; SARCOLEMMA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUBSARCOLEMMAL MITOCHONDRION; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; HEART INFARCTION PREVENTION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; METABOLISM; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; WESTERN BLOTTING; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CONNEXIN 43; ISCHEMIC PRECONDITIONING, MYOCARDIAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MITOCHONDRIA, HEART; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; NITROSATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RATS, WISTAR; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES;

EID: 84911970077     PISSN: 03008428     EISSN: 14351803     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00395-014-0433-x     Document Type: Article

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