Disruption of the cingulin gene does not prevent tight junction formation but alters gene expression

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 117, Issue 22, 2004, Pages 5245-5256

  Guillemot, Laurent ^a   Hammar, Eva ^a   Kaister, Christian ^a   Ritz, Jorge ^a   Caille, Dorothée ^a   Jond, Lionel ^a   Bauer, Christoph ^a   Meda, Paolo ^a   Citi, Sandra ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cingulin; Differentiation; Embryoid body; Epithelium; ES cell; Tight junction

Indexed keywords

BIOTIN; CELL PROTEIN; CLAUDIN 2; CLAUDIN 6; CLAUDIN 7; CYTOPLASM PROTEIN; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 4ALPHA; MESSENGER RNA; OCCLUDIN; PROTEIN CINGULIN; PROTEIN LFC; PROTEIN ZO1; PROTEIN ZO2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 6; TYLOXAPOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO CELL; ENDODERMIS; EPITHELIUM CELL; EXON; FREEZE FRACTURE; GENE DELETION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MICROARRAY; STEM CELL; TIGHT JUNCTION; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BIOTIN; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA PRIMERS; EMBRYO; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, COMPLEMENTARY; RNA, MESSENGER; STEM CELLS; TIGHT JUNCTIONS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 9444239778     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.01399     Document Type: Article

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