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CELL AND TISSUE RESEARCH
卷 348, 期 2, 页码 281-294出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00441-011-1314-3
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Adherens junctions; Myxomata; Cardiac tumors; Nuclear plakophilins; Plakophilin-2
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- German Cancer Foundation (Deutsche Krebshilfe) [10-2049-Fr1, 106976]
- Federal Ministry for Research and Technology (START-MSC) [01GN0942]
Within the characteristic ensemble of desmosomal plaque proteins, the protein plakophilin-2 (Pkp2) is known as a particularly important regulatory component in the cytoplasmic plaques of various other cell-cell junctions, such as the composite junctions () of the myocardiac intercalated disks and in the variously-sized and -shaped complex junctions of permanent cell culture lines derived therefrom. In addition, Pkp2 has been detected in certain protein complexes in the nucleoplasm of diverse kinds of cells. Using a novel set of highly sensitive and specific antibodies, both kinds of Pkp2, the junctional plaque-bound and the nuclear ones, can also be localized to the cytoplasmic plaques of diverse non-desmosomal cell-cell junction structures. These are not only the and the connecting various types of highly proliferative non-epithelial cells growing in culture but also some very proliferative states of cardiac interstitial cells and cardiac myxomata, including tumors growing in situ as well as fetal stages of heart development and cultures of valvular interstitial cells. Possible functions and assembly mechanisms of such Pkp2-positive cell-cell junctions as well as medical consequences are discussed.
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