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Different effects of dominant negative mutants of desmocollin and desmoglein on the cell-cell adhesion of keratinocytes.
Journal of cell science - 1 May 2000
Hanakawa Y, Amagai M, Shirakata Y, Sayama K, Hashimoto K
Abstract excerpt
Desmosomes contain two types of cadherin: desmocollin (Dsc) and desmoglein (Dsg). In this study, we examined the different roles that Dsc and Dsg play in the formation of desmosomes, by using dominant-negative mutants. We constructed recombinant adenoviruses (Ad) containing truncated mutants of E-cadherin, desmocollin 3a, and desmoglein 3 lacking a large part of their extracellular domains (EcaddeltaEC,...
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