ReviewPhysiological reviews2010
Lens gap junctions in growth, differentiation, and homeostasis.
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- Calcium induced N-terminal gating and pore collapse in connexin-46/50 gap junctions.Nature communications · 2026Article
- RORA Targeting PRNP Modulates Age-Related Cataract via Activation Oxidative Injury-Induced Cellular Senescence and Apoptosis of Lens Epithelial Cells.Aging cell · 2026Article
- The Mammalian Ocular Lens in Focus: Development, Anatomy, Physiology, Transparency, Biomechanics, and Age-related Challenges.Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE · 2026Review
- The Human Lens Fiber Cytoskeletome Reveals Neuronal Signatures and the Presence of Chaperonins, Proteasome, Signaling, and Redox Regulators.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2026Article
- Structure and function of mouse lens suture examined by 2-photon fluorescence microscopic imaging.Scientific reports · 2026Article
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- Reversible lipid-mediated pH-gating of connexin-46/50 by cryo-EM.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Connexin50 hemichannels are opened by COFrontiers in physiology · 2026Article
- Mechanisms of permselectivity of connexin hemichannels to small molecules.The Journal of biological chemistry · 2025Article
- Gap Junctional Versus Paracrine Signaling in the Human Lens Epithelium: Analysis Based on Multicellular Ca²⁺ Imaging and Computational Modeling.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2025Article
- Periaxin gene variants are linked to age-related cataracts in Cx46 deficient lenses.Communications biology · 2025Article
- Data-Independent Acquisition Parallel Accumulation-Serial Fragmentation (diaPASEF) Analysis of the Separated Zebrafish Lens Improves Identifications.Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry · 2025Article
- A novel GJA3 mutation causing autosomal dominant congenital perinuclear cataracts.BMC ophthalmology · 2025Article
- Calcium induced N-terminal gating and pore collapse in connexin-46/50 gap junctions.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- G91-deletion in βA3/A1-crystallin induces cellular and molecular changes in mouse lenses leading to congenital cataract development.PloS one · 2025Article
- Ankyrin-B is required for the establishment and maintenance of lens cytoarchitecture, mechanics and clarity.Journal of cell science · 2024Article
- Deficiency in glutathione peroxidase 4 (GPX4) results in abnormal lens development and newborn cataract.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- The rectification of heterotypic Cx46/Cx50 gap junction channels depends on intracellular magnesium.Biophysics reports · 2024Article
- Altered Cell Clusters and Upregulated Aqp1 in Connexin 50 Knockout Lens Epithelium.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2024Article
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Abstract
The cells of most mammalian organs are connected by groups of cell-to-cell channels called gap junctions. Gap junction channels are made from the connexin (Cx) family of proteins. There are at least 20 isoforms of connexins, and most tissues express more than 1 isoform. The lens is no exception, as it expresses three isoforms: Cx43, Cx46, and Cx50. A common role for all gap junctions, regardless of their Cx composition, is to provide a conduit for ion flow between cells, thus creating a syncytial tissue with regard to intracellular voltage and ion concentrations. Given this rather simple role of gap junctions, a persistent question has been: Why are there so many Cx isoforms and why do tissues express more than one isoform? Recent studies of lens Cx knockout (KO) and knock in (KI) lenses have begun to answer these questions. To understand these roles, one must first understand the physiological requirements of the lens. We therefore first review the development and structure of the lens, its numerous transport systems, how these systems are integrated to generate the lens circulation, the roles of the circulation in lens homeostasis, and finally the roles of lens connexins in growth, development, and the lens circulation.
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