"Desmoplakins" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Desmoplakins are cytoskeletal linker proteins that anchor INTERMEDIATE FILAMENTS to the PLASMA MEMBRANE at DESMOSOMES.
| Descriptor ID |
D051180
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D12.776.220.790.500
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| 1994 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2001 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Desmoplakins" by people in Profiles.
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Post-operative Brugada electrocardiographic pattern, polymorphic ventricular tachycardia, and sudden death in a child after administration of propofol anaesthesia. Cardiol Young. 2020 May; 30(5):724-727.
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Abnormal immunoreactivity of the E-cadherin/catenin (alpha-, beta-, and gamma-) complex in premalignant and malignant non-melanocytic skin tumours. J Pathol. 2002 Feb; 196(2):154-62.
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Gene expression profiling leads to identification of GLI1-binding elements in target genes and a role for multiple downstream pathways in GLI1-induced cell transformation. J Biol Chem. 2002 Feb 15; 277(7):5548-55.
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The potential role of abnormal E-cadherin and alpha-, beta- and gamma-catenin immunoreactivity in the determination of the biological behaviour of keratoacanthoma. Br J Dermatol. 2001 Oct; 145(4):582-9.
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Altered gamma-catenin expression correlates with poor survival in patients with bladder cancer. J Urol. 1998 Nov; 160(5):1889-93.
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Posttranslational regulation of plakoglobin expression. Influence of the desmosomal cadherins on plakoglobin metabolic stability. J Biol Chem. 1994 Dec 09; 269(49):31214-23.
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Functional analysis of desmoplakin domains: specification of the interaction with keratin versus vimentin intermediate filament networks. J Cell Biol. 1993 Nov; 123(3):691-705.
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Type I collagen gel induces Madin-Darby canine kidney cells to become fusiform in shape and lose apical-basal polarity. J Cell Biol. 1989 Mar; 108(3):903-19.