α-Catenin-vinculin interaction functions to organize the apical junctional complex in epithelial cells

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 142, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 847-857

  Watabe Uchida, Mitsuko ^a   Uchida, Naoshige ^a   Imamura, Yuzo ^a   Nagafuchi, Akira ^a   Fujimoto, Kazushi ^a   Uemura, Tadashi ^a   Vermeulen, Stefan ^b   Van Roy, Frans ^c   Adamson, Eileen D ^d   Takeichi, Masatoshi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d BURNHAM INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cadherin; Catenin; Tight junction; Vinculin; Zonula adherens

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CATENIN; VINCULIN;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; APICAL MEMBRANE; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL AGGREGATION; DESMOSOME; EPITHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; TIGHT JUNCTION;

ALPHA CATENIN; BINDING SITES; CELL COMMUNICATION; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR JUNCTIONS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; VINCULIN;

EID: 15644363085     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.142.3.847     Document Type: Article

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