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JUNCTIONAL COMPLEXES IN VARIOUS EPITHELIA

1963 • 3,559 citations

Occludin: a novel integral membrane protein localizing at tight junctions.

1993 • 2,466 citations

Claudin-1 and -2: Novel Integral Membrane Proteins Localizing at Tight Junctions with No Sequence Similarity to Occludin

1998 • 2,005 citations

Junctional Adhesion Molecule, a Novel Member of the Immunoglobulin Superfamily That Distributes at Intercellular Junctions and Modulates Monocyte Transmigration

1998 • 1,356 citations

Paracellin-1, a Renal Tight Junction Protein Required for Paracellular Mg ²⁺ Resorption

1999 • 1,107 citations

Claudin multigene family encoding four-transmembrane domain protein components of tight junction strands

1999 • 1,100 citations

Direct Binding of Three Tight Junction-Associated Maguks, Zo-1, Zo-2, and Zo-3, with the Cooh Termini of Claudins

1999 • 1,094 citations

FRACTURE FACES OF ZONULAE OCCLUDENTES FROM "TIGHT" AND "LEAKY" EPITHELIA

1973 • 1,086 citations

A Single Gene Product, Claudin-1 or -2, Reconstitutes Tight Junction Strands and Recruits Occludin in Fibroblasts

1998 • 923 citations

Functional dissociation of paracellular permeability and transepithelial electrical resistance and disruption of the apical-basolateral intramembrane diffusion barrier by expression of a mutant tight junction membrane protein.

1996 • 849 citations

Tight junctions and the molecular basis for regulation of paracellular permeability

1995 • 825 citations

Endothelial Claudin

1999 • 802 citations

Manner of Interaction of Heterogeneous Claudin Species within and between Tight Junction Strands

1999 • 724 citations

CNS Myelin and Sertoli Cell Tight Junction Strands Are Absent in Osp/Claudin-11 Null Mice

1999 • 678 citations

Occludin is a functional component of the tight junction

1996 • 632 citations

Occludin as a possible determinant of tight junction permeability in endothelial cells

1997 • 626 citations

Clostridium perfringens Enterotoxin Fragment Removes Specific Claudins from Tight Junction Strands

1999 • 609 citations

Occludin and claudins in tight-junction strands: leading or supporting players?

1999 • 575 citations

Morphological factors influencing transepithelial permeability: A model for the resistance of theZonula Occludens

1978 • 569 citations

Occludin-deficient Embryonic Stem Cells Can Differentiate into Polarized Epithelial Cells Bearing Tight Junctions

1998 • 532 citations

A Synthetic Peptide Corresponding to the Extracellular Domain of Occludin Perturbs the Tight Junction Permeability Barrier

1997 • 527 citations

Structure, function, and regulation of cellular tight junctions

1992 • 517 citations

Further observations on the fine structure of freeze-cleaved tight junctions

1973 • 501 citations

Claudin-11/OSP-based Tight Junctions of Myelin Sheaths in Brain and Sertoli Cells in Testis

1999 • 434 citations

Freeze-fracture replica electron microscopy combined with sds digestion for cytochemical labeling of integral membrane proteins: Application to the immunogold labeling of intercellular junctional complexes

1995 • 430 citations

Lipidic intramembranous particles

1984 • 416 citations

Occluding junction structure-function relationships in a cultured epithelial monolayer.

1985 • 412 citations

Breaking through the tight junction barrier.

1993 • 379 citations

Interspecies diversity of the occludin sequence: cDNA cloning of human, mouse, dog, and rat-kangaroo homologues.

1996 • 329 citations

Structural and signalling molecules come together at tight junctions

1999 • 306 citations

COOH Terminus of Occludin Is Required for Tight Junction Barrier Function in Early Xenopus Embryos

1997 • 301 citations

Evidence for the lipidic nature of tight junction strands

1982 • 277 citations

Molecular Cloning and Functional Characterization of the Receptor for Clostridium perfringens Enterotoxin

1997 • 272 citations

Twenty-first Bowditch lecture. The epithelial junction: bridge, gate, and fence.

1977 • 250 citations

Tight junction structure and ZO-1 content are identical in two strains of Madin-Darby canine kidney cells which differ in transepithelial resistance.

1988 • 238 citations

On tight-junction structure

1982 • 218 citations

Ca2+-independent cell-adhesion activity of claudins, a family of integral membrane proteins localized at tight junctions

1999 • 195 citations

ROUTES AND MECHANISM OF FLUID TRANSPORT BY EPITHELIA

1998 • 177 citations

Occludin is concentrated at tight junctions of mouse/rat but not human/guinea pig Sertoli cells in testes

1998 • 141 citations

Isolation and Characterization of Transcripts Induced by Androgen Withdrawal and Apoptotic Cell Death in the Rat Ventral Prostate

1991 • 120 citations

Twenty-first Bowditch lecture. The epithelial junction: bridge, gate, and fence.

1977 • 107 citations

Identification, Characterization, and Precise Mapping of a Human Gene Encoding a Novel Membrane-Spanning Protein from the 22q11 Region Deleted in Velo–Cardio–Facial Syndrome

1997 • 103 citations

Isolation and characterization of a novel oligodendrocyte-specific protein

1996 • 93 citations

Tight Junction Permeability to Ions and Water

2001 • 73 citations