Cornulin, a new member of the "fused gene" family, is expressed during epidermal differentiation

Journal of Investigative Dermatology

Volumn 124, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 990-997

  Contzler, Romuald ^a   Favre, Bertrand ^a   Huber, Marcel ^a   Hohl, Daniel ^a,b  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b Serv de Dermatol et Venerologie   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

1q21; Differentiation complex; Epidermis; Fused gene; Keratinocytes

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; MESSENGER RNA; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; PROLINE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN CORNULIN; PROTEIN GLUTAMINE GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CALCIUM BINDING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIDERMIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GRANULAR CELL; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; KERATINOCYTE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREPUCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SCALP; SKIN; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION;

EID: 18244402874     PISSN: 0022202X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-202X.2005.23694.x     Document Type: Article

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