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Gap junction channels provide the main pathway by which adjacent cells can communicate with each other. They are one of the major mechanisms for coordinating individual cells into tissues.

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Recent advances in determining and modeling the structure of gap junction channels (at a near atomic level) are expanding our understanding of their function and regulation.

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This page is a summary of: Gap junction structure: unraveled, but not fully revealed, F1000Research, April 2017, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.,
DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.10490.1.
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