Claudin-4 knockout by TALEN-mediated gene targeting in MDCK cells: Claudin-4 is dispensable for the permeability properties of tight junctions in wild-type MDCK cells

• Shinsaku Tokuda ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: tokku@kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp

  Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3726-7775

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• Toyohiro Hirai,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

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• Mikio Furuse

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Cell Structure, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Okazaki, Japan, Department of Physiological Sciences, SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Okazaki, Japan

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