Selected Publications
 
  • Green, K.J., D.A.D. Parry, P.M. Steinert, M.L. Virata, R.M. Wagner, B.D. Angst, and L.A. Nilles (1990).  Stucture of the human desmoplakins:  implications for function in the desmosomal plaque. J. Biol. Chem. 265: 2603-2612.

  • Green, K.J., T.S. Stappenbeck, S. Noguchi, R. Oyasu, and L.A. Nilles (1991).  Desmoplakin expression and distribution in cultured rat bladder epithelial cells of varying tumorigenic potential.  Exp. Cell Res. 193: 134-143.

  • Jones, J.C.R. and K.J. Green (1991) Intermediate filament-plasma membrane interactions.  Curr. Opin. Cell Biol.  3: 126-131.

  • Nilles, L.A., D.A.D. Parry, E.E. Powers, B.D. Angst, R.M. Wagner, and K.J. Green (1991). Structural analysis and expression of human desmoglein: a cadherin-like component of the desmosome. J. Cell Sci. 99: 809-823.

  • Virata, M.L.A., R.M. Wagner, D.A.D. Parry, and K.J. Green (1992). Molecular structure of the human desmoplakin I and II amino terminus. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.  89: 544-548.

  • Stappenbeck, T.S. and K.J. Green (1992). The desmoplakin carboxyl terminus co-aligns with and specifically disrupts intermediate filament networks when expressed in cultured cells.  J. Cell Biol. 116: 1197-1209.

  • Green, K.J., M.L.A. Virata, G. Elgart, J. R. Stanley, and D.A.D. Parry (1992).  Comparative structural analysis of desmoplakin, bullous pemphigoid antigen and plectin: members of a new gene family involved in organization of intermediate filaments. Int. J. Biol. Macromol.  14: 145-153.

  • Peifer, M., P. McCrea, K.J. Green, E. Wieschaus, and B. Gumbiner (1992). The vertebrate adhesive junction proteins b-catenin and plakoglobin and the Drosophila segment polarity gene armadillo form a multigene family with similar properties.  J. Cell Biol. 118: 681-691.

  • Buxton, R.S., P. Cowin, W.W. Franke, D.R. Garrod, K.J. Green, I.A. King, P.J. Koch, A.I. Magee, D.A. Rees, J.R. Stanley, and M.S. Steinberg (1993). Nomenclature of the desmosomal cadherins. J. Cell Biol. 121: 481-483.

  • Stappenbeck, T.S., E.A. Bornslaeger, C. M. Corcoran, H.H. Luu, M. Luisa A. Virata, and K.J. Green.  (1993) Functional analysis of desmoplakin domains: specification of the interaction with keratin versus vimentin intermediate filament networks.  J. Cell Biol.  123: 691-705.

  • Kowalczyk, A., H. L. Palka, H. H. Luu, L. A. Nilles, M.J. Wheelock, J.E. Anderson, and K.J. Green (1994) Post-translational regulation of plakoglobin expression: influence of the desmosomal cadherins on plakoglobin metabolic stability. J. Biol. Chem. 269: 31214-31223.

  • Stappenbeck, T.S., J.A. Lamb,  C.M. Corcoran, and K.J. Green (1994). Phosphorylation of the desmoplakin COOH terminus negatively regulates its interaction with keratin intermediate filament networks. J. Biol. Chem. 269: 29351-29354.

  • Amagai, M., T. Hashimoto, K.J. Green, N. Shimizu, and T. Nishikawa (1995) Antigen-specific immunoadsorption of pathogenic autoantibodies in pemphigus foliaceus. J. Invest. Derm.  104: 895-901.

  • Kowalczyk, A.P., J.E. Anderson, J.E. Borgwardt, T.Hashimoto, J.R. Stanley, and K.J. Green (1995). Pemphigus sera recognize conformationally sensitive epitopes in the amino-terminal region of Dsg1.  J. Invest. Derm.  105: 147-152.

  • Bornslaeger, E.B., C.M. Corcoran, T.S. Stappenbeck, and K.J. Green (1996).  Breaking the connection: Displacement of the desmosomal plaque protein desmoplakin from cell-cell interfaces disrupts anchorage of intermediate filament bundles and alters intercellular junction assembly.  J. Cell Biol. 134: 985-1002.

  • Kowalczyk, A.P., J.E. Borgwardt and K.J. Green (1996). Analysis of desmosomal cadherin adhesive function and stoichiometry of desmosomal cadherin:plakoglobin complexes. J. Invest. Derm. 107: 293-300.

  • Kowalczyk, A.P. and K.J. Green (1996). The desmosome: a component system for adhesion and intermediate filament attachment. Curr. Topics Mem. 43: 187-209.

  • Green, K.J. and J.C.R. Jones (1996). Desmosomes and hemidesmosomes: structure and function of molecular components. FASEB J. 10: 871-881.

  • Meng, J.-j., E.A. Bornslaeger, K.J. Green, P.M. Steinert and W. Ip. (1997) Two hybrid analysis reveals fundamental differences in direct interactions between desmoplakin and cell type specific intermediate filaments. J. Biol. Chem. 272: 21495-21503.

  • Kowalczyk, A.K., E.B. Bornslaeger, J.E. Borgwardt, H.L. Palka, A.S. Dhaliwal, C.M. Corcoran, M.F. Denning, and K.J. Green. (1997) The amino-terminal domain of desmoplakin binds to plakoglobin and clusters desmosomal cadherin-plakoglobin complexes.  J. Cell Biol. 139:773-784.

  • Palka, H.L. and K.J. Green. (1997)  Roles of plakoglobin end domains in intercellular junction assembly. J. Cell Sci. 110:2359-2371.

  • Denning, M.F., S.G. Guy, S.M. Ellerbroek, S.M. Norvell, A.P. Kowalczyk, and K.J. Green. (1998) The expression of desmoglein isoforms in cultured human keratinocytes is regulated by calcium, serum and protein kinase C. Exp. Cell Res. 239: 50-59.

  • Norvell, S.M. and K.J. Green. (1998) Contributions of extracellular and intracellular domains of full length and chimeric cadherin molecules to junction assembly in epithelial cells.  J. Cell Sci.  111: 1305-1318.

  • Kowalczyk, A.P., P. Navarro, E. Dejana, E.A. Bornslaeger, K.J. Green, D.S. Kopp, J.E. Borgwardt (1998) VE-cadherin and desmoplakin are assembled into dermal microvascular endothelial intercellular junctions: a pivotal role for plakoglobin in the recruitment of desmoplakin to intercellular junctions. J. Cell Sci. 111: 3045-3057

  • Kowalczyk, A.P., E.A. Bornslaeger, S.M. Norvell, H.L. Palka, and K.J. Green (1999). Desmosomes: intercellular junctions specialized for attachment of intermediate filaments. Int. Rev. Cytol. 185: 237-302.

  • Armstrong, D.K.B., K.E. McKenna, P. Purkis, K.J. Green, R.A. J. Eady, I.M. Leigh, and A.E. Hughes (1999). Haploinsufficiency of desmoplakin causes disruption of intermediate filament-desmosome interactions in palmoplantar epidermis (striate keratoderma). Human Mol. Gen. 8: 143-148.

  • Green, K.J. and E.A. Bornslaeger (1999). "Desmoplakins" In: Guidebook to the Extracellular Matrix and Adhesion Proteins. (ed. Kreis, T. and R. Vale) Oxford University Press, pp102-105.

  • Kowalczyk, A.P., M. Hatzfeld, E.A. Bornslaeger, D.S. Kopp, J.E. Borgwardt, C.M. Corcoran, A. Settler and K.J. Green (1999). The head domain of plakophilin-1 binds to desmoplakin and enhances its recruitment to desmosomes: implications for cutaneous disease. J. Biol. Chem. 274: 18145-18418

  • Green, K.J., S. Guy, P.B. Cserhalmi-Freidman, I. McClean, A.M. Christiano, R.M. Wagner (1999). Analysis of the desmoplakin gene reveals striking conservation with other members of the plakin family of cytolinkers.  Exp. Derm. 8: 462-470.

  • North, A.J. W.g. Bardsley, E.A. Bornslaeger, H.C. Cordingley, K.J. Green, M. Hatzfeld, j. Hyam, A.i. Magee, B. Trinnaman, and D.R. Garrod (1999). A molecular map of the desmosome.  J. Cell Sci. 112: 4325-4336

  • Green, K.J. and C.A. Gaudry (2000).  Are desmosomes more than cell-type specific tethers for intermediate filaments?  Nature Reviews Mol. Biol.  1: 208-216.

  • Bornslaeger, E.A., L.M. Godsel, C.M. Corcoran, J.K. Park, M. Hatzfeld, A.P. Kowalczyk, and K.J. Green (2001). Plakophilin 1 interferes with plakoglobin for binding to desmoplakin, yet together with plakoglobin promotes clustering of desmosomal plaque complexes at cell-cell borders. J. Cell Sci. 114: 727-738

  • Gaudry, C.A., H.L. Palka, R.L. Dusek, A.C. Huen, M.J. Khandekar, L.G. Hudson, and K.J. Green (2001). Tyrosine phosphorylated plakoglobin is associated with desmogleins but not desmoplakin after epidermal growth factor receptor activation. J. Biol. Chem. 276(27): 24871-80 (pub. on line 5/3/01).      

  • Leung, C.L., R.K.H. Liem, D.A.D. Parry, and K.J. Green (2001).  The Plakin Family  J. Cell. Sci.  114 (19):  3409-3410.

  • Leung, CL., K.J. Green, R.K.H. Liem.  Plakins: a family of versatile cytolinker proteins. Trends Cell Biol. 12: 37-45.

  • Ishii, K., and K.J. Green.  (2001).  Cadherin function:  Breaking the Barrier.  Curr. Biol. 11: R569-R572.

  • Chen, X., S. Bonne, M. Hatzfeld, F. Van Roy, K.J. Green. (2002). Protein binding and functional characterization of plakophilin 2: evidence for its diverse roles in desmosomes and b-catenin signaling.  J. Biol. Chem. 277: 10512-10522

  • Munshi, H.G., S. Ghosh, Y.I. Wu, R. Sen. K.J. Green, and M.S. Stack.  (2002) Proteinase suppression by E-cadherin mediated cell-cell attachment in premalignant oral keratinocytes.  J. Biol. Chem.  Pub. Online 7/23/02.

  • Choi, H-J, S. Park-Snyder, L.T. Pascoe, K.J. Green and W.I. Weis. (2002). Structures of two fragments of the intermediate filament binding protein desmoplakin reveal a unique repeat motif structure. Nature Struct. Biol. 9 612-620.

  • Huen, A.C., J.K. Park, X. Chen, L.M. Godsel, L.J. Bannon, E.V. Amargo, T.Y. Hudson, A.K. Mongiu, I.M. Leigh, D.P. Kelsell, B.M. Gumbiner, and K.J. Green. (2002). Intermediate filament-membrane attachments function synergistically with actin-dependent contacts to regulate adhesive strength. J. Cell Biol. 159: 1005-1018. (cited in Faculty 1000).

  • Hatzfeld, M., K.J. Green, and H. Sauter. (2003). Targeting of p0071 to desmosomes and adherens junctions is mediated by different protein domains. J. Cell Sci. 116:1219-33.

  • Fontao, L., B. Favre, S. Riou, D. Geerts, F. Jaunin, J.-H. Saurat, K.J. Green, A. Sonnenberg, and L. Borradori (2003). Interaction of the bullous pemphigoid antigen 1 (BP230) and desmoplakin with intermediate filaments is mediated by distinct sequences within their COOH terminus. Mol. Biol. Cell. 14:1978-92. Pub. Online 1/26/03.

  • Bonne, S., B. Gilbert, M. Hatzfeld, X. Chen, K.J.Green, and F. van Roy. (2003). Defining desmosomal plakophilin-3 interactions. J. Cell. Biol. 161:403-16.

  • Chen, X, S. Kojima, G.G. Borisy and K.J. Green. (2003). P120 catenin associates with kinesin and facilitiates the transport of cadherin-catenin complexes to intercellular junctions. J. Cell Biol. 163: 547-557.   (Commentary in same issue; cited in Faculty 1000).

  • Getsios, S., A.C. Huen, and K.J. Green (2004).  Working out the strength and flexibility of desmosomes.  Nature Reviews Cell Mol. Biol. 5: 271-281

  • Lorch, J.H., J. Klessner, J.K. Park, S. Getsios, Y.L. Wu, M.S. Stack and K.J. Green.  Epidermal growth factor receptor inhibition promotes desmosome assembly and strengthens intercellular adhesion in squamous cell carcinoma cells. J. Biol. Chem. Published online, 6/16/04.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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