Assembly and function of claudins: Structure-function relationships based on homology models and crystal structures

Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 42, Issue , 2015, Pages 3-12

  Krause, G ^a   Protze, J ^a   Piontek, J ^b  

^a Leibnitz Institut fuer molekulare Pharmakologie FMP   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin; Paracellular permeability; Pore formation; Strand assembly, disassembly; Tight junction proteins

Indexed keywords

CLAUDIN; ENTEROTOXIN; EXTRACELLULAR LOOP 1; EXTRACELLULAR LOOP 2; TIGHT JUNCTION PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ENTEROTOXIN, CLOSTRIDIUM;

BINDING AFFINITY; CELL CONTACT; CHANNEL GATING; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PERMEABILITY; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TIGHT JUNCTION; ANIMAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; CLAUDINS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ENTEROTOXINS; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TIGHT JUNCTIONS;

EID: 84940889137     PISSN: 10849521     EISSN: 10963634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2015.04.010     Document Type: Review

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