Analysis of the desmoplakin gene reveals striking conservation with other members of the plakin family of cytolinkers

Experimental Dermatology

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 462-470

  Green, Kathleen J ^a   Guy, S G ^a   Cserhalmi Friedman, P B ^b   McLean, W H I ^c   Christiano, A M ^b   Wagner, R M ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bullous pemphigoid antigen 1; Desmoplakin; Envoplakin; Periplakin; Plectin

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; BP 230; CELL PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DESMOPLAKIN; ENDOTHELIN 1; ENVOPLAKIN; MESSENGER RNA; PERIPLAKIN; PLECTIN; PROLACTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CLONING VECTOR; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032755755     PISSN: 09066705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0625.1999.tb00304.x     Document Type: Article

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