Epithelial structural proteins of the skin and oral cavity: function in health and disease

RB Presland, BA Dale - Critical Reviews in Oral Biology & …, 2000 - journals.sagepub.com
Epithelial tissues function to protect the organism from physical, chemical, and microbial
damage and are essential for survival. To perform this role, epithelial keratinocytes undergo …

Heterogeneity of myofibroblast phenotypic features: an example of fibroblastic cell plasticity

A Schmitt-Gräff, A Desmoulière, G Gabbiani… - Virchows Archiv, 1994 - Springer
Granulation tissue fibroblasts (myofibroblasts) develop several ultrastructural and
biochemical features of smooth muscle (SM) cells, including the presence of microfilament …

Pericentrin and γ-tubulin form a protein complex and are organized into a novel lattice at the centrosome

JB Dictenberg, W Zimmerman, CA Sparks… - The Journal of cell …, 1998 - rupress.org
Pericentrin and γ-tubulin are integral centrosome proteins that play a role in microtubule
nucleation and organization. In this study, we examined the relationship between these …

Transgenic mice carrying a human mutant superoxide dismutase transgene develop neuronal cytoskeletal pathology resembling human amyotrophic lateral sclerosis …

PH Tu, P Raju, KA Robinson… - Proceedings of the …, 1996 - National Acad Sciences
Mutations in the human Cu, Zn superoxide dismutase gene (SOD1) are found in 20% of
kindreds with familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Transgenic mice (line G1H) expressing a …

Plectin sidearms mediate interaction of intermediate filaments with microtubules and other components of the cytoskeleton.

TM Svitkina, AB Verkhovsky, GG Borisy - The Journal of cell biology, 1996 - rupress.org
By immunogold labeling, we demonstrate that" millipede-like" structures seen previously in
mammalian cell cytoskeletons after removal of actin by treatment with gelsolin are …

The epidermal keratinocyte as a model for the study of gene regulation and cell differentiation

RL Eckert, JF Crish, NA Robinson - Physiological reviews, 1997 - journals.physiology.org
The epidermis is a dynamic, continually renewing structure that provides the organism with a
life-sustaining interface with the environment. The major cell type of the epidermis, the …

Molecular insights into cardiomyopathies associated with desmin (DES) mutations

A Brodehl, A Gaertner-Rommel, H Milting - Biophysical reviews, 2018 - Springer
Increasing usage of next-generation sequencing techniques pushed during the last decade
cardiogenetic diagnostics leading to the identification of a huge number of genetic variants …

[HTML][HTML] Keratin 15 expression in stratified epithelia: downregulation in activated keratinocytes

A Waseem, Y Alam, A Lalli, B Dogan, N Tidman… - Journal of investigative …, 1999 - Elsevier
Keratin 15 (K15) is a type I keratin without a defined type II partner whose expression in
epidermal diseases has not been investigated. In this study we have used LHK15, a …

Sequences 5′ of the bovine keratin 5 gene direct tissue-and cell-type-specific expression of a lacZ gene in the adult and during development

A Ramírez, A Bravo, JL Jorcano, M Vidal - Differentiation, 1994 - Elsevier
Expression of keratin K5 (and K14) in multilayered epithelia occurs predominantly in the
basal layer of proliferating keratinocytes. When a keratinocyte becomes committed to …

Invertebrate muscles: muscle specific genes and proteins

SL Hooper, JB Thuma - Physiological reviews, 2005 - journals.physiology.org
This is the first of a projected series of canonic reviews covering all invertebrate muscle
literature prior to 2005 and covers muscle genes and proteins except those involved in …