Intercellular communication via gap junction channels between chondrocytes and bone cells

Assembly of gap junction intercellular communication channels.

788 with a lipidlprotein molar ratio of 100:1, a value close to that found in most biological membranes [21]. The data show that the calculation of distances between sites within the monomer of a membrane protein of a cross-sectional diameter of 5 nm based only from FET efficiency measurements is largely speculative in most cases in native biological membranes. Because the contribution of FET t...

Gap Junction Intercellular Communication in Bone Marrow Failure

Communication in Airway Cells TLR2 Regulates Gap Junction Intercellular

Cross-talk between fibroblast growth factor and bone morphogenetic proteins regulates gap junction-mediated intercellular communication in lens cells.

Homeostasis in the lens is dependent on an extensive network of cell-to-cell gap junctional channels. Gap junction-mediated intercellular coupling (GJIC) is higher in the equatorial region of the lens than at either pole, an asymmetry believed essential for lens transparency. Primary cultures of embryonic chick lens epithelial cells up-regulate GJIC in response to purified fibroblast growth fac...

Influence of lipids on gap-junction-mediated intercellular communication between Chinese hamster cells in vitro.

The influence of lipids on gap-junction-mediated intercellular communication (i.e., metabolic cooperation) between Chinese hamster V79 cells was investigated. Unsaturated free fatty acids (oleate, linoleate, linolenate, palmitoleate, myristoleate, and arachidonate) inhibited metabolic cooperation between 6-thioguanine-resistant, hypoxanthine guanine phosphoribosyltransferase-deficient and 6-thi...