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- Pannexins (from Gr**** 'παν' — all, and from Latin 'nexus' — connection) are a family of vertebrate proteins identified by their homology to the invertebrate...
- reducing its deposition in various tissues. Probenecid also inhibits pannexin 1. Pannexin 1 is involved in the activation of inflammasomes and subsequent release...
- Pannexin 1 is a protein in humans that is encoded by the PANX1 gene. The protein encoded by this gene belongs to the innexin family. Innexin family members...
- one-half of a gap junction channel. Hemichannels consist of connexins. Pannexins are involved in the process of purinergic signalling. They release adenosine...
- Furthermore, pannexins appear to do this to such an extent they may rarely if ever parti****te in direct cell to cell coupling. As indicated on the pannexin/innexin/connexin...
- "Cell-to-cell communication in intact taste buds through ATP signalling from pannexin 1 gap junction hemichannels". The Journal of Physiology. 587 (Pt 24): 5899–906...
- by MITF. Activation of the P2X7 receptor by ATP leads to recruitment of pannexin pores which allow small molecules such as ATP to leak out of cells. This...
- in vivo in the same way connexins do. The more recently characterized pannexin family, which was originally thought to form intercellular channels (with...
- beaded apoptopodia (the latter having a beads-on-a-string appearance). Pannexin 1 is an important component of membrane channels involved in the formation...
- called "pannexins" (from the Gr**** pan - all, throughout, and Latin nexus - connection, bond). However, increasing evidence suggests that pannexins do not...