Epiplakin is dispensable for skin barrier function and for integrity of keratin network cytoarchitecture in simple and stratified epithelia.

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Epiplakin, a giant epithelial protein of >700 kDa, belongs to the plakin family of cytolinker proteins. It represents an atypical family member, however, as it consists entirely of plakin repeat domains but lacks any of the other domains commonly shared by plakins. Hence, its putative function as a cytolinker protein remains to be shown. To investigate epiplakin's biological role, we generated epiplakin-deficient...

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