Functional differences between keratins of stratified and simple epithelia

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 143, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 487-499

  Hutton, Elizabeth ^a   Paladini, Rudolph D ^b   Yu, Qian Chun ^a   Yen, Mei ^a   Coulombe, Pierre A ^b   Fuchs, Elaine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidermis; Epithelia; Functional redundancy; Intermediate filaments; Keratins

Indexed keywords

KERATIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; EPIDERMIS; EPITHELIUM CELL; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN POLYMERIZATION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; BLISTER; DERMATOLOGIC AGENTS; EPIDERMIS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENTS; KERATIN-14; KERATINS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PROTEIN BINDING; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TRANSGENES; UREA;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0032547734     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.143.2.487     Document Type: Article

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