[Term]
id: GO:0005922
name: connexin complex
namespace: cellular_component
def: "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." [PMID:11146276]
synonym: "connexon" EXACT [GOC:cjm]
is_a: GO:0032991 ! protein-containing complex