The NF2 Tumor Suppressor, Merlin, Regulates Epidermal Development through the Establishment of a Junctional Polarity Complex

Developmental Cell

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 727-739

  Gladden, Andrew B ^a,b   Hebert, Alan M ^a,b   Schneeberger, Eveline E ^c   McClatchey, Andrea I ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ALPHA CATENIN; EZRIN; MERLIN; MOESIN; RADIXIN; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL CULTURE; CELL JUNCTION; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; KERATINOCYTE; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

ADHERENS JUNCTIONS; ALPHA CATENIN; ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; CELL POLARITY; EPIDERMIS; KERATINOCYTES; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS 2; NEUROFIBROMIN 2; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

EID: 78149476036     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2010.10.008     Document Type: Article

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