Claudins: Multifunctional players in epithelial tight junctions and their role in cancer

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 17-28

  Oliveira, S S ^a   Morgado Diaz J A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CÂNCER   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cell polarity; Cell signaling; Claudin; Permeability barrier; Tight junction; Tumor suppression

Indexed keywords

CLAUDIN; CLAUDIN 1; CLAUDIN 14; CLAUDIN 16; CLAUDIN 2; CLAUDIN 3; CLAUDIN 4; CLAUDIN 7; CLAUDIN 8; CLOSTRIDIUM TOXIN; ENTEROTOXIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACYLATION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SIZE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CARCINOGENESIS; CARCINOMA; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTACT INHIBITION; CYTOTOXICITY; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG TARGETING; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; GENE MUTATION; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NITROSYLATION; NONHUMAN; OVARY CANCER; PANCREAS CANCER; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROSTATE CANCER; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STOMACH CANCER; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THYROID CANCER; TIGHT JUNCTION; UPREGULATION; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL POLARITY; EPITHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; NEOPLASMS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIGHT JUNCTIONS;

EID: 33846476587     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: 15691632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-006-6314-1     Document Type: Review

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