α-Catenin mediates initial E-cadherin-dependent cell- cell recognition and subsequent bond strengthening

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 47, 2008, Pages 18331-18336

  Bajpai, Saumendra ^a   Correia, Joana ^b   Feng, Yunfeng ^c   Figueiredo, Joana ^b   Sun, Sean X ^a   Longmore, Gregory D ^c   Suriano, Gianpaolo ^b   Wirtz, Denis ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Actin; Cancer; Cell adhesion; Single molecule force spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ALPHA CATENIN; BETA CATENIN; UVOMORULIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CELL RECOGNITION; CELL CONTACT; CELL FUNCTION; MISSENSE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE MOLECULE FORCE SPECTROSCOPY; SPECTROSCOPY; STOMACH CANCER;

ALPHA CATENIN; ANIMALS; CADHERINS; CELL ADHESION; CHO CELLS; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 57449109337     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0806783105     Document Type: Article

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