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CRITICAL REVIEWS IN BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 47, Issue 5, Pages 407-423Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.3109/10409238.2012.683482
Keywords
Connexin; trafficking; endocytosis; interaction protein-protein; partners; physiology; diseases
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- Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale (INSERM)
- l'Agence Francaise de Securite Sanitaire de l'Environnement et du Travail (AFSSET) [2010/2/019]
- OSEO, Ile de France [A1010071Q]
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Connexins, through gap junctional intercellular communication, are known to regulate many physiological functions involved in developmental processes such as cell proliferation, differentiation, migration and apoptosis. Strikingly, alterations of connexin expression and trafficking are often, if not always, associated with human developmental diseases and carcinogenesis. In this respect, disrupted trafficking dynamics and aberrant intracytoplasmic localization of connexins are considered as typical features of functionality failure leading to the pathological state. Recent findings demonstrate that interactions of connexins with numerous protein partners, which take place throughout connexin trafficking, are essential for gap junction formation, membranous stabilization and degradation. In the present study, we give an overview of the physiological molecular machinery and of the specific interactions between connexins and their partners, which are involved in connexin trafficking, and we highlight their changes in pathological situations.
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