Single amino acid substitutions in conserved extracellular domains of E-cadherin differ in their functional consequences

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 314, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 445-454

  Handschuh, Gabriele ^a   Luber, Birgit ^b   Hutzler, Peter ^a   Höfler, Heinz ^a,b   Becker, Karl Friedrich ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amino acid substitution; Calcium binding site; Cell adhesion; E cadherin; Point mutation

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; UVOMORULIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CALCIUM BINDING; CELL ADHESION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL STRUCTURE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; STOMACH CANCER; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

EID: 0035976712     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.2001.5143     Document Type: Article

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