Overexpression of the Xenopus tight-junction protein claudin causes randomization of the left-right body axis

Developmental Biology

Volumn 230, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 217-229

  Brizuela, Brenda J ^a   Wessely, Oliver ^a   De Robertis, E M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell adhesion; Cell cell interactions; Claudin; Left right asymmetry; Tight junctions; Xenopus; ZO 1

Indexed keywords

CLAUDIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BLASTOMERE; BLASTULA; CELL ADHESION; CELL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TIGHT JUNCTION; XENOPUS;

EID: 0035865044     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.2000.0116     Document Type: Article

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