A look at tricellulin and its role in tight junction formation and maintenance

European Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 90, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 787-796

  Mariano, Cibelle ^a   Sasaki, Hiroyuki ^b,c   Brites, Dora ^a   Brito, Maria Alexandra ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR MEDICINES IMED ULISBOA   (Portugal)

^b JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Barrier; Central tube; Deafness; Intercellular junctions; Lipolysis stimulated lipoprotein; MARVEL; Occludin; Tight junctions; Tricellulin; Zonula occludens

Indexed keywords

CASEIN KINASE I; CASEIN KINASE II; CLAUDIN 5; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; JUNCTIONAL ADHESION MOLECULE A; MESSENGER RNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; OCCLUDIN; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA; PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE C; PROTEIN ZO1; PROTEIN ZO2; TRICELLULIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BINDING SITE; CELL ADHESION; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CYTOPLASM; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN POLYMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIGHT JUNCTION; UPREGULATION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; TIGHT JUNCTIONS;

EID: 84860399013     PISSN: 01719335     EISSN: 16181298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcb.2011.06.005     Document Type: Short Survey

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