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desmoplakin

Known as: Desmoplakins, Desmoplakins [Chemical/Ingredient] 
Desmoplakins are cytoskeletal linker proteins that anchor INTERMEDIATE FILAMENTS to the PLASMA MEMBRANE at DESMOSOMES.
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DSP protein, humanDesmoplakin 1Desmoplakin 2JUP protein, human
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Review
2007
Review
2007
Plakophilins: Multifunctional proteins or just regulators of desmosomal adhesion?
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Changing roles of cadherins and catenins during progression of squamous intraepithelial lesions in the uterine cervix.
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
VE-cadherin and desmoplakin are assembled into dermal microvascular endothelial intercellular junctions: a pivotal role for plakoglobin in the recruitment of desmoplakin to intercellular junctions.
Vascular endothelial cells assemble adhesive intercellular junctions comprising a unique cadherin, VE-cadherin, which is coupled… 
Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
Complexus adhaerentes, a new group of desmoplakin-containing junctions in endothelial cells: the syndesmos connecting retothelial cells of lymph nodes.
We describe, in bovine and human tissues, a new kind of adhering junctions ("complexus adhaerens") which occur in certain… 
Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
Functional analysis of desmoplakin domains: specification of the interaction with keratin versus vimentin intermediate filament networks
We previously demonstrated that truncated desmoplakin I (DP I) molecules containing the carboxyl terminus specifically coalign… 
Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Human autoantibodies against desmoplakins in paraneoplastic pemphigus.
Recently, a previously unrecognized autoantibody mediated blistering disease, paraneoplastic pemphigus has been described… 
Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
The desmoplakin carboxyl terminus coaligns with and specifically disrupts intermediate filament networks when expressed in cultured cells
Specific interactions between desmoplakins I and II (DP I and II) and other desmosomal or cytoskeletal molecules have been… 
Highly Cited
1989
Highly Cited
1989
Desmoplakin I and desmoplakin II. Purification and characterization.
Desmoplakins I and II (DP1 and DP2), major cytoskeletal structural proteins concentrated in desmosomes, have been purified in… 
Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
Kinetics of desmosome assembly in Madin-Darby canine kidney epithelial cells: temporal and spatial regulation of desmoplakin organization and stabilization upon cell-cell contact. I. Biochemical…
The functional interaction of cells in the formation of tissues requires the establishment and maintenance of cell-cell contact… 
Highly Cited
1986
Highly Cited
1986
Synaptophysin: a marker protein for neuroendocrine cells and neoplasms.
Synaptophysin is an integral membrane glycoprotein (Mr 38,000) that occurs in presynaptic vesicles of neurons and in similar… 
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