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

JUNCTIONAL COMPLEXES IN VARIOUS EPITHELIA

1963 • 3,559 citations

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

1993 • 2,466 citations

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1998 • 2,005 citations

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1996 • 1,896 citations

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1998 • 1,356 citations

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1974 • 1,339 citations

The Tight Junction Protein ZO-1 Establishes a Link between the Transmembrane Protein Occludin and the Actin Cytoskeleton

1998 • 1,331 citations

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

1999 • 1,100 citations

Direct association of occludin with ZO-1 and its possible involvement in the localization of occludin at tight junctions.

1994 • 949 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

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

Possible Involvement of Phosphorylation of Occludin in Tight Junction Formation

1997 • 576 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

Sec6/8 Complex Is Recruited to Cell–Cell Contacts and Specifies Transport Vesicle Delivery to the Basal-Lateral Membrane in Epithelial Cells

1998 • 523 citations

An Atypical PKC Directly Associates and Colocalizes at the Epithelial Tight Junction with ASIP, a Mammalian Homologue of Caenorhabditis elegans Polarity Protein PAR-3

1998 • 508 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

Breaking through the tight junction barrier.

1993 • 379 citations

Modulation of tight junction structure in blood-brain barrier endothelial cells Effects of tissue culture, second messengers and cocultured astrocytes

1994 • 361 citations

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

1996 • 329 citations

Characterization of ZO-2 as a MAGUK Family Member Associated with Tight as well as Adherens Junctions with a Binding Affinity to Occludin and α Catenin

1999 • 302 citations

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

1997 • 301 citations

Mammalian occludin in epithelial cells: its expression and subcellular distribution.

1997 • 278 citations

Evidence for the lipidic nature of tight junction strands

1982 • 277 citations

Occludin confers adhesiveness when expressed in fibroblasts

1997 • 272 citations

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

1997 • 272 citations

Regulated assembly of tight junctions by protein kinase C.

1995 • 262 citations

A small rab GTPase is distributed in cytoplasmic vesicles in non polarized cells but colocalizes with the tight junction marker ZO-1 in polarized epithelial cells

1994 • 228 citations

On tight-junction structure

1982 • 218 citations

Overexpression of occludin, a tight junction-associated integral membrane protein, induces the formation of intracellular multilamellar bodies bearing tight junction-like structures

1996 • 193 citations

Expression and polarized targeting of a rab3 isoform in epithelial cells.

1994 • 179 citations

Targeting vesicles to specific sites on the plasma membrane: the role of the sec6/8 complex

1999 • 172 citations

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

1998 • 141 citations

Zonulae occludentes in junctional complex-enriched fractions from mouse liver: preliminary morphological and biochemical characterization.

1984 • 139 citations

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1991 • 120 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

Involvement of Gαi2 in the Maintenance and Biogenesis of Epithelial Cell Tight Junctions

1998 • 85 citations

Plugging the leaks

1999 • 83 citations

Brain capillary endothelial cells express MBEC1, a protein that is related to the Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin receptors.

1998 • 26 citations