Connexin-occludin chimeras containing the ZO-binding domain of occludin localize at MDCK tight junctions and NRK cell contacts

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 146, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 683-693

  Mitic, Laura L ^a   Schneeberger, Eveline E ^b   Fanning, Alan S ^a   Anderson, James Melvin ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Connexin 32; MAGUK; Occludin; Tight junction; ZO 1

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 32; GUANYLATE KINASE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OCCLUDIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL CONTACT; CELL STRAIN; CHIMERA; CYTOSKELETON; FIBROBLAST; GAP JUNCTION; KIDNEY CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; TIGHT JUNCTION;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CELL MEMBRANE; CONNEXINS; DOGS; FIBROBLASTS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; FREEZE FRACTURING; GAP JUNCTIONS; GENE DELETION; GUANYLATE KINASE; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR JUNCTIONS; KIDNEY; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NUCLEOSIDE-PHOSPHATE KINASE; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; RATS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TIGHT JUNCTIONS; TRANSFECTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033538828     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.146.3.683     Document Type: Article

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