[HTML][HTML] Pannexin2 oligomers localize in the membranes of endosomal vesicles in mammalian cells while Pannexin1 channels traffic to the plasma membrane

D Boassa, P Nguyen, J Hu, MH Ellisman… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Pannexin2 (Panx2) is the largest of three members of the pannexin proteins. Pannexins are
topologically related to connexins and innexins, but serve different functional roles than …

Diverse subcellular distribution profiles of pannexin1 and pannexin3

S Penuela, SJ Celetti, R Bhalla, Q Shao… - Cell communication & …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Pannexins have been proposed to play a role in gap junctional intercellular communication
and as single-membrane channels, although many of their molecular characteristics differ …

[HTML][HTML] Pannexin1 channels contain a glycosylation site that targets the hexamer to the plasma membrane

D Boassa, C Ambrosi, F Qiu, G Dahl, G Gaietta… - Journal of Biological …, 2007 - ASBMB
Pannexins are newly discovered channel proteins expressed in many different tissues and
abundantly in the vertebrate central nervous system. Based on membrane topology, folding …

[HTML][HTML] Pannexin1 and Pannexin2 channels show quaternary similarities to connexons and different oligomerization numbers from each other

C Ambrosi, O Gassmann, JN Pranskevich… - Journal of Biological …, 2010 - ASBMB
Pannexins are homologous to innexins, the invertebrate gap junction family. However,
mammalian pannexin1 does not form canonical gap junctions, instead forming hexameric …

Glycosylation regulates pannexin intermixing and cellular localization

S Penuela, R Bhalla, K Nag… - Molecular biology of the …, 2009 - Am Soc Cell Biol
The pannexin family of mammalian proteins, composed of Panx1, Panx2, and Panx3, has
been postulated to be a new class of single-membrane channels with functional similarities …

Pannexin channels and their links to human disease

S Penuela, L Harland, J Simek, DW Laird - Biochemical Journal, 2014 - portlandpress.com
In less than a decade, a small family of channel-forming glycoproteins, named pannexins,
have captured the interest of many biologists, in large part due to their association with …

Trafficking dynamics of glycosylated pannexin1 proteins

D Boassa, F Qiu, G Dahl, G Sosinsky - Cell communication & …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Pannexins are mammalian orthologs of innexins and have a predicted topological folding
pattern similar to that of connexins, except they are glycosylated. Rat pannexin1 is …

The cellular life of pannexins

S Penuela, DW Laird - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The mammalian pannexin family of channel‐forming proteins consisting of Panx1, Panx2,
and Panx3 has received considerable attention in the last 10 years given their newly …

Pannexin 1 and pannexin 3 are glycoproteins that exhibit many distinct characteristics from the connexin family of gap junction proteins

S Penuela, R Bhalla, XQ Gong… - Journal of cell …, 2007 - journals.biologists.com
Pannexins are mammalian orthologs of the invertebrate gap junction proteins innexins and
thus have been proposed to play a role in gap junctional intercellular communication …

[HTML][HTML] Pannexin1 and pannexin3 delivery, cell surface dynamics, and cytoskeletal interactions

R Bhalla-Gehi, S Penuela, JM Churko, Q Shao… - Journal of Biological …, 2010 - ASBMB
Pannexins (Panx) are a class of integral membrane proteins that have been proposed to
exhibit characteristics similar to those of connexin family members. In this study, we utilized …