connexon complex

id: GO:0005922
name: connexon complex
namespace: cellular_component
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: An assembly of six molecules of connexin, made in the Golgi apparatus and subsequently transported to the plasma membrane, where docking of two connexons on apposed plasma membranes across the extracellular space forms a gap junction.

Parent Functions

idname
GO:0043234protein complex
GO:0044459plasma membrane part