"Plakins" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A family of related proteins that associate with cytoskeletal elements and junctional complexes at INTERCELLULAR JUNCTIONS. Plakins share a common plakin domain or a plakin repeat domain.
| Descriptor ID |
D051179
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D12.776.220.790
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| Concept/Terms |
Plakins- Plakins
- Cytoskeletal Adaptor Proteins
- Adaptor Proteins, Cytoskeletal
- Cytoskeletal Linker Proteins
- Cytolinker Proteins
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1999 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Plakins" by people in Profiles.
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McGrath JA. Inherited disorders of desmosomes. Australas J Dermatol. 2005 Nov; 46(4):221-9.
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Aho S, Rothenberger K, Tan EM, Ryoo YW, Cho BH, McLean WH, Uitto J. Human periplakin: genomic organization in a clonally unstable region of chromosome 16p with an abundance of repetitive sequence elements. Genomics. 1999 Mar 01; 56(2):160-8.
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Aho S, McLean WH, Li K, Uitto J. cDNA cloning, mRNA expression, and chromosomal mapping of human and mouse periplakin genes. Genomics. 1998 Mar 01; 48(2):242-7.