Abstract
We have established PCR assays for the genes coding for the major proteins of the desmosome type of cell junction, the desmosomal cadherins DGI (desmoglein) and DGII/III (desmocollins), and the plaque proteins DPI/II (desmoplakin) and DPIII (plakoglobin) and used them to test human-mouse and human-rat somatic cell hybrids with different contents of human chromosomes. From these data we were able to assign DGI to chromosome 18 (DSG), DGII/III to chromosome 9p (DSC), DPI/II to chromosome 6p21-ter(DSP), and DPIII to chromosome 7 (JUP).
MeSH terms
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Animals
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Base Sequence
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Chromosome Mapping
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Chromosomes, Human, Pair 18*
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Chromosomes, Human, Pair 6*
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Chromosomes, Human, Pair 7*
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Chromosomes, Human, Pair 9*
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Cytoskeletal Proteins / genetics*
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Desmocollins
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Desmogleins
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Desmoplakins
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Desmosomes*
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Genes
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Humans
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Hybrid Cells
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Mice
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Polymerase Chain Reaction
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Rats
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gamma Catenin
Substances
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Cytoskeletal Proteins
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DSP protein, human
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Desmocollins
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Desmogleins
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Desmoplakins
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Dsp protein, mouse
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gamma Catenin
Associated data
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GENBANK/J05211
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GENBANK/M23410
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GENBANK/X56654
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GENBANK/X56807