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Scanning Electron Microscopy of Macerated Tissue to Visualize the Extracellular Matrix
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ネイティブの表皮デスマソームにおけるカデリンの分子構造

Ashraf Al-Amoudi1, Daniel Castaño Díez, Matthew J Betts

  • 1European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Meyerhofstr. 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany.

Nature
|December 8, 2007
PubMed
まとめ

研究者は,冷凍電子トモグラフィーを用いて人間の皮膚のデスマソーマルカデリンを視覚化しました. これは詳細な分子構造を明らかにし,カデリン分子がどのように相互作用して細胞粘着を媒介するかを説明しました.

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