In their May 2015 Scientific American article “Cellular Small Talk,”Dale W. Laird, Paul D. Lampe and Ross G. Johnson report on recent discoveries showing that the disruption of cellular structures ...

Gap junctions are aggregates of intercellular channels that join adjacent cells. Intercellular channels are composed of a pair of connexons, each of which is a hexamer of connexin proteins. As ...

Gap-junctional communication between neurons was first described several decades ago in crayfish, and was later studied by electrophysiological means in mammals. This field of research gained new ...

The emergence of gap junctions is a hallmark in the evolution of life from single-cell to multicellular organisms. For the first time, they enabled true social interactions between cells by allowing ...