Role of the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway in downregulation of the gap-junction protein connexin43 by TNF-α in human corneal fibroblasts

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1943-1947

  Kimura, Kazuhiro ^a   Nishida, Teruo ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BENZYLOXYCARBONYLLEUCYLLEUCYLLEUCINAL; CONNEXIN 43; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; JANUS KINASE; LUCIFER YELLOW; PROTEASOME; STAT PROTEIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UBIQUITIN; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE NEDD4; BENZYLOXYCARBONYLLEUCYL LEUCYL LEUCINE ALDEHYDE; BENZYLOXYCARBONYLLEUCYL-LEUCYL-LEUCINE ALDEHYDE; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; LEUPEPTIN; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; CORNEA STROMA; DOWN REGULATION; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; KERATITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UBIQUITINATION; CELL JUNCTION; CYTOLOGY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME;

CELLS, CULTURED; CONNEXIN 43; CORNEAL STROMA; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE INHIBITORS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOWN-REGULATION; FIBROBLASTS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GAP JUNCTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; LEUPEPTINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIME FACTORS; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASES;

EID: 85047687838     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.09-3573     Document Type: Article

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