The transforming rho family GTPase Wrch-1 disrupts epithelial cell tight junctions and epithelial morphogenesis

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1035-1049

  Brady, Donita C ^a   Alan, Jamie K ^a   Madigan, James P ^b   Fanning, Alan S ^b   Cox, Adrienne D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; CELL PROTEIN; PROTEIN PAR6; PROTEIN WRCH 1; RHO GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; APICAL MEMBRANE; ARTICLE; BASOLATERAL MEMBRANE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DISRUPTION; CELL POLARITY; CELL STRAIN; CELL STRAIN COS7; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; EPITHELIUM CELL; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; TIGHT JUNCTION;

ACTINS; ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION; CELL POLARITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SHAPE; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; COS CELLS; DOGS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EPITHELIUM; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; HUMANS; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RHO GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; TIGHT JUNCTIONS;

EID: 59449093560     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.00336-08     Document Type: Article

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