Table 1.
Disease Types | Expression | Phosphorylation | Site | Function | References | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
The nervous system | Depression | ↓ | ↑ | Ser368, Ser279 Tyr247, Tyr265 |
GJCs↓ | [31,32,33,34,35,36] |
AD | ↑ | ↑ | Ser368, Ser365 | GJCs↓ HC↑ |
[55,56] | |
PD | ↑ | ↑ | Ser368 | GJCs↓ | [58,59] | |
Epilepsy | ↑ | ↑ | Ser255, Ser368 | GJCs↓ HC↑ |
[69] | |
Ischemic stroke | No significant change | ↑ | MK4, Ser368 Ser325/328/330 |
GJCs↓ HC↑ |
[77] | |
Cerebral ischemia | ↑ | ↑ | Ser368, Tyr247 Tyr265 |
GJCs↓ | [86,90,91] | |
Cerebral vasospasm | ↑ | ↑ | Ser368 | GJCs↓ | [94] | |
Cancer | ↓ | ↑ | serine | GJCs↓ | [97,99,100] | |
The cardiovascular system | Cardiac ischemia/reperfusion injury | —— | ↑ | Ser368 | GJCs↓ | [114,115] |
Hypertension and cardiac hypertrophy | ↑ | ↑ | —— | GJCs↓ | [116,117,118,119,120,121,122,123] | |
Heart failure and arrhythmia | ↓ | Ser255↑ Ser365, Ser325/328/330↓ |
GJCs↓ | [124,125] | ||
Other tissues | Endothelial tissue | ↓ | ↑ | Ser368 Ser279/282 | —— | [133] |
Epithelial tissues | —— | ↑ | Ser368 Ser279/282 | [135,136] | ||
Proliferative retinopathy | —— | ↑ | Ser325/328/330 | —— | [137] | |
Chronic pain | —— | ↑ | Ser368 | —— | [138] |
Cx43, Connexin 43; HC, hemichannel; GJIC, gap junction intercellular communication; ↑, Increase; ↓, Decrease.