Gap junctions are aggregates of intercellular channels that permit direct cell–cell transfer of
ions and small molecules. Initially described as low-resistance ion pathways joining …

Sáez, Juan C., Viviana M. Berthoud, María C. Brañes, Agustín D. Martínez, and Eric C.
Beyer. Plasma Membrane Channels Formed by Connexins: Their Regulation and Functions …

Evaluation of the human genome suggests that all members of the connexin family of gap-
junction proteins have now been successfully identified. This large and diverse family of …

Adjacent cells share ions, second messengers and small metabotes through intercellular
channels which are present in gap junctions. This type of intercellular communication …

Vertebrate gap junctions, composed of proteins from the connexin gene family, play critical
roles in embryonic development, co-ordinated contraction of excitable cells, tissue …

Gap junctions are specialized membrane domains composed of collections of channels that
directly connect neighboring cells providing for the cell-to-cell diffusion of small molecules …

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 …

Gap junctions are a unique type of intercellular junction found in most animal cell types. Gap
junctions permit the intercellular passage of small molecules and have been implicated in …

Occludin is an integral membrane protein localizing at tight junctions in epithelial and
endothelial cells. Occludin from confluent culture MDCK I cells resolved as several (> 10) …

Gap junctions (GJs) are the only known cellular structures that allow a direct transfer of
signaling molecules from cell-to-cell by forming hydrophilic channels that bridge the …