Desmosome Assembly and Disassembly Are Membrane Raft-Dependent

Sara N. Stahley; Masataka Saito; Victor Faundez; Michael Koval; Alexa L. Mattheyses; Andrew P. Kowalczyk

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0087809

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Desmosome Assembly and Disassembly Are Membrane Raft-Dependent

Sara N. Stahley ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Sara N. Stahley, Masataka Saito

Affiliations Department of Cell Biology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Graduate Program in Biochemistry, Cell and Developmental Biology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
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Masataka Saito ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Sara N. Stahley, Masataka Saito

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
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Victor Faundez,

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
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Michael Koval,

Affiliations Department of Cell Biology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
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Alexa L. Mattheyses,

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
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Andrew P. Kowalczyk

* E-mail: akowalc@emory.edu

Affiliations Department of Cell Biology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Dermatology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
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Desmosome Assembly and Disassembly Are Membrane Raft-Dependent

Sara N. Stahley,
Masataka Saito,
Victor Faundez,
Michael Koval,
Alexa L. Mattheyses,
Andrew P. Kowalczyk

Published: January 30, 2014
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0087809

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