Desmoplakin is required early in development for assembly of desmosomes and cytoskeletal linkage

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 143, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 2009-2022

  Ian Gallicano, G ^a   Kouklis, Panos ^a   Bauer, Christoph ^a   Yin, Mei ^a   Vasioukhin, Valeri ^a   Degenstein, Linda ^a   Fuchs, Elaine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cadherins; Desmoplakin; Desmosomes; Embryonic lethal; Knockout

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; CADHERIN; DESMOPLAKIN; KERATIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOSKELETON; DESMOSOME; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE; MOUSE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; CYTOSKELETON; DESMOPLAKINS; DESMOSOMES; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENES, LETHAL; GESTATIONAL AGE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 20644437528     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.143.7.2009     Document Type: Article

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