Anti-Connexin 43

Connexins 43 (Cx43), also called GAP Junction Protein, alpha-1(GJA1). Connexin 43 is a member of the connexin gene family which abundantly expressed in the heart and liver and was mapped to 6q21-q23.2. Connexin43, the major protein of gap junctions in the heart, is targeted by several protein kinases that regulate myocardial cell-cell coupling. Mutations in the connexin43 gap-junction gene, which lead to abnormally regulated cell-cell communication, are associated with visceroatrial heterotaxia. Cx43 must also play a critical role in the physiology of hearing, presumably by participating in the recycling of potassium to the cochlear endolymph.

Lyophilized

2-8C. For long term -20C after reconstitution.

• 1. Britz-Cunningham, S. H., Shah, M. M., Zuppan, C. W., Fletcher, W. H. : Mutations of the connexin43 gap-junction gene in patients with heart malformations and defects of laterality. New Eng. J. Med. 332: 1323-1329, 1995.
• 2. Liu, X. Z., Xia, X. J., Adams, J., Chen, Z. Y., Welch, K. O., Tekin, M., Ouyang, X. M., Kristiansen, A., Pandya, A., Balkany, T., Arnos, K. S., Nance, W. E. : Mutations in GJA1 (connexin 43) are associated with non-syndromic autosomal recessive deafness. Hum. Molec. Genet. 10: 2945-2951, 2001.

Immunogen affinity purified.