Plakophilins
"Plakophilins" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Members of the armadillo family of proteins that are found in DESMOSOMES and interact with various proteins including desmocadherins; DESMOPLAKIN; ACTIN FILAMENTS; and KERATINS.
| Descriptor ID |
D051191
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D12.776.091.750 D12.776.220.885
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| Concept/Terms |
Plakophilin 1- Plakophilin 1
- Band 6 Protein, Desmosomal
- Desmosome Band 6 Polypeptide
- Desmosome Band 6 Protein
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1999 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Plakophilins" by people in Profiles.
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Dubash AD, Kam CY, Aguado BA, Patel DM, Delmar M, Shea LD, Green KJ. Plakophilin-2 loss promotes TGF-ß1/p38 MAPK-dependent fibrotic gene expression in cardiomyocytes. J Cell Biol. 2016 Feb 15; 212(4):425-38.
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Neuber S, Jäger S, Meyer M, Wischmann V, Koch PJ, Moll R, Schmidt A. c-Src mediated tyrosine phosphorylation of plakophilin 3 as a new mechanism to control desmosome composition in cells exposed to oxidative stress. Cell Tissue Res. 2015 Mar; 359(3):799-816.
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Klymkowsky MW. Plakophilin, armadillo repeats, and nuclear localization. Microsc Res Tech. 1999 Apr 01; 45(1):43-54.