Gap Junction Delta 4 Protein

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Contents 1 Function 2 Structure 3 Compartment 4 More General Terms 5 Internet Database 6 References

Function

• One gap junction consists of a cluster of closely packed pairs of transmembrane channels, the connexons, through which materials of low MW diffuse from one cell to a neighboring cell A connexon is composed of a hexamer of connexins (By similarity)

Structure

• belongs to the connexin family. delta-type subfamily

Compartment

• cell membrane; Multi-pass membrane protein ( putative). cell junction, gap junction (By similarity)

More General Terms

• membrane protein

Internet Database

Prosite: [1]
Prosite: [2]
UniProt: [3]

References

UniProt [4]

Gap junction delta-4 protein (connexin-40.1, Cx40.1) (GJD4 CX401)