Transmembrane protein PERP is a component of tessellate junctions and of other junctional and non-junctional plasma membrane regions in diverse epithelial and epithelium-derived cells

The adhering junctions of valvular interstitial cells: molecular composition in fetal and adult hearts and the comings and goings of plakophilin-2 in situ, in cell culture and upon re-association with scaffolds

(2012) Mareike Barth et al.   CELL AND TISSUE RESEARCH

Plakophilin-2: a cell-cell adhesion plaque molecule of selective and fundamental importance in cardiac functions and tumor cell growth

(2012) Steffen Rickelt   CELL AND TISSUE RESEARCH

Mutations in the area composita protein αT-catenin are associated with arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy

(2012) Jolanda van Hengel et al.   EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL

A fresh start - but business as usual

(2012) M. Way   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

Protein myozap — a late addition to the molecular ensembles of various kinds of adherens junctions

(2011) Steffen Rickelt et al.   CELL AND TISSUE RESEARCH

Intercellular adhering junctions with an asymmetric molecular composition: desmosomes connecting Merkel cells and keratinocytes

(2011) Steffen Rickelt et al.   CELL AND TISSUE RESEARCH

Screening of Three Novel Candidate Genes in Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy

(2011) Alex Hørby Christensen et al.   Genetic Testing and Molecular Biomarkers

Mesenchymal-epithelial transitions: Spontaneous and cumulative syntheses of epithelial marker molecules and their assemblies to novel cell junctions connecting human hematopoietic tumor cells to carcinomatoid tissue structures

(2011) Werner W. Franke et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CANCER

E–N-cadherin heterodimers define novel adherens junctions connecting endoderm-derived cells

(2011) Beate K. Straub et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

The plaque protein myozap identified as a novel major component of adhering junctions in endothelia of the blood and the lymph vascular systems

(2011) Sebastian Pieperhoff et al.   JOURNAL OF CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR MEDICINE

PERP expression stabilizes active p53 via modulation of p53-MDM2 interaction in uveal melanoma cells

(2011) L Davies et al.   Cell Death & Disease

Loss of the p53/p63 Regulated Desmosomal Protein Perp Promotes Tumorigenesis

(2010) Veronica G. Beaudry et al.   PLoS Genetics

Differential PERP regulation by TP63 mutants provides insight into AEC pathogenesis

(2009) Veronica G. Beaudry et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL GENETICS PART A

Cordial connections: molecular ensembles and structures of adhering junctions connecting interstitial cells of cardiac valves in situ and in cell culture

(2009) Mareike Barth et al.   CELL AND TISSUE RESEARCH

Upregulation of plakophilin-2 and its acquisition to adherens junctions identifies a novel molecular ensemble of cell-cell-attachment characteristic for transformed mesenchymal cells

(2009) Steffen Rickelt et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CANCER

Loss of the Desmosomal Protein Perp Enhances the Phenotypic Effects of Pemphigus Vulgaris Autoantibodies

(2009) Bichchau Nguyen et al.   JOURNAL OF INVESTIGATIVE DERMATOLOGY

The Desmosome

(2009) E. Delva et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Discovering the Molecular Components of Intercellular Junctions--A Historical View

(2009) W. W. Franke   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Subtypes of melanocytes and melanoma cells distinguished by their intercellular contacts: heterotypic adherens junctions, adhesive associations, and dispersed desmoglein 2 glycoproteins

(2008) Steffen Rickelt et al.   CELL AND TISSUE RESEARCH

Endothelial and virgultar cell formations in the mammalian lymph node sinus: endothelial differentiation morphotypes characterized by a special kind of junction (complexus adhaerens)

(2008) Roland Moll et al.   CELL AND TISSUE RESEARCH

P53 apoptosis mediator PERP: localization, function and caspase activation in uveal melanoma

(2008) Lyndsay Davies et al.   JOURNAL OF CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR MEDICINE

Desmosome structure, composition and function

(2007) David Garrod et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES