Envoplakin, a novel precursor of the cornified envelope that has homology to desmoplakin

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 134, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 715-729

  Ruhrberg, Christiana ^a   Hajibagheri, M A Nasser ^a   Simon, Marcia ^b   Dooley, Thomas P ^c   Watt, Fiona M ^a  

^a IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SOUTHERN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESMOPLAKIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; EPIDERMIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KERATINOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 0029741672     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.134.3.715     Document Type: Article

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