Breaking the connection: Displacement of the desmosomal plaque protein desmoplakin from cell-cell interfaces disrupts anchorage of intermediate filament bundles and alters intercellular junction assembly

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 134, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 985-1001

  Bornslaeger, Elayne A ^a   Corcoran, Connie M ^a   Stappenbeck, Thaddeus S ^a,b   Green, Kathleen J ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADHERIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DESMOGLEIN; DESMOPLAKIN; PLAKOGLOBIN; POLYPEPTIDE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL JUNCTION; CELL LINE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESMOSOME; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

EID: 0029847068     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.134.4.985     Document Type: Article

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