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Desmosomes

 
 
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Disease relevance of Desmosomes

 

High impact information on Desmosomes

  • Perp localizes specifically to desmosomes, adhesion junctions important for tissue integrity, and numerous structural defects in desmosomes are observed in Perp-deficient skin, suggesting a role for Perp in promoting the stable assembly of desmosomal adhesive complexes [6].
  • LEKTI deficiency causes abnormal desmosome cleavage in the upper granular layer through degradation of desmoglein 1 due to stratum corneum tryptic enzyme and stratum corneum chymotryptic enzyme-like hyperactivity [7].
  • In 32 of 120 unrelated individuals with ARVC, we identified heterozygous mutations in PKP2, which encodes plakophilin-2, an essential armadillo-repeat protein of the cardiac desmosome [8].
  • By contrast, chimeras containing a Dsg tail, which accumulated in the plasma membrane, showed a dominant-negative effect: they not only were unable to form gap junction structures and plaques but also led to the disappearance of all endogenous desmosomes and the detachment of IFs from the plasma membrane [9].
  • Cadherin family members are the transmembrane components of a number of cellular junctions, including adherens junctions, desmosomes, cardiac junctions, endothelial junctions, and synaptic junctions [10].
 

Chemical compound and disease context of Desmosomes

 

Biological context of Desmosomes

 

Anatomical context of Desmosomes

 

Associations of Desmosomes with chemical compounds

  • They included abnormal distribution of alpha 2 beta 1 integrin along the crypt-villus axis, increased immunohistochemical expression of desmoglein, and ultrastructural changes of desmosomes increased in length and number [23].
  • Localisation of the protein and glycoprotein components of bovine nasal epithelial desmosomes by immunoelectron microscopy [24].
  • Junctions were split between adjacent cells by treatment with EGTA and proteins associated with the plaques of zonulae adhaerentes and desmosomes were localized by immunological methods [25].
  • Conversely, when linked to a foreign protein, as few as 86 NH2-terminal DP residues are sufficient to target to desmosomes efficiently [26].
  • Periplakin, a novel component of cornified envelopes and desmosomes that belongs to the plakin family and forms complexes with envoplakin [27].
 

Gene context of Desmosomes

  • Our results suggest a model whereby at desmosome sites within dividing epidermal cells, DP and PG anchor to desmosomal cadherins and to each other, forming an ordered array of nontransmembrane proteins that then bind to keratin IFs [26].
  • In this report, we explore the biochemical nature of the connections between keratin filaments and desmosomes in epidermal keratinocytes [28].
  • Together, these results show that PKP3, whose epithelial and epidermal desmosomal expression pattern and protein interaction repertoire are broader than those of PKP1 and -2, is a unique multiprotein binding element in the basic architecture of a vast majority of epithelial desmosomes [29].
  • These data suggest that plakoglobin, which is the only known common component to both adherens junctions and desmosomes, must be linked to E-cadherin in the adherens junction before the cell can begin to assemble desmosomal components at regions of cell-cell contact [13].
  • Desmoplakin is a desmosomal component that plays a critical role in linking intermediate filament networks to the desmosomal plaque, and the amino-terminal domain of desmoplakin targets desmoplakin to the desmosome [30].
 

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Desmosomes

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