Membrane insertion of gap junction connexins: polytopic channel forming membrane proteins.
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Membrane insertion of gap junction connexins: polytopic channel forming membrane proteins
Connexins, the proteins that form gap junction channels, are polytopic plasma membrane (PM) proteins that traverse the plasma membrane bilayer four times. The insertion of five different connexins into the membrane of the ER was studied by synthesizing connexins in translation-competent cell lysates supplemented with pancreatic ER-derived microsomes, and by expressing connexins in vivo in sever...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Cell Biology
سال: 1994
ISSN: 0021-9525,1540-8140
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.127.2.343