title: Kazrin, a novel periplakin-interacting protein associated with desmosomes and the keratinocyte plasma membrane.
abstract: Periplakin forms part of the scaffold onto which the epidermal cornified envelope is assembled. The NH2-terminal 133 amino acids mediate association with the plasma membrane and bind a novel protein, kazrin. Kazrin is highly conserved and lacks homology to any known protein. There are four alternatively spliced transcripts, encoding three proteins with different NH2 termini. Kazrin is expressed in all layers of stratified squamous epithelia; it becomes membrane associated in the suprabasal layers, coincident with up-regulation of periplakin, and is incorporated into the cornified envelope of cultured keratinocytes. Kazrin colocalizes with periplakin and desmoplakin at desmosomes and with periplakin at the interdesmosomal plasma membrane, but its subcellular distribution is independent of periplakin. On transfection, all three kazrin isoforms have similar subcellular distributions. We conclude that kazrin is a novel component of desmosomes that associates with periplakin.
authors.affiliation: Keratinocyte Laboratory, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PX, UK.
authors.forename: Karen R
authors.initials: KR
authors.lastname: Groot
authors.forename: Lisa M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Sevilla
authors.forename: Kazunori
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nishi
authors.forename: Teresa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: DiColandrea
authors.forename: Fiona M
authors.initials: FM
authors.lastname: Watt
mesh_terms: D017398:Alternative Splicing / Q000235:genetics; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence / Q000235:genetics; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence / Q000235:genetics; D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*; D002448:Cell Adhesion / Q000235:genetics*; D002462:Cell Membrane / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D003598:Cytoskeletal Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D018076:DNA, Complementary / Q000235:genetics; D003896:Desmosomes / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D006801:Humans; D047908:Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins; D015603:Keratinocytes / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D051179:Plakins; D020033:Protein Isoforms / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary / Q000235:genetics; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000378:metabolism; D015854:Up-Regulation / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D002352:Carrier Proteins; D003598:Cytoskeletal Proteins; D018076:DNA, Complementary; D047908:Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins; C492711:KAZN protein, human; D008565:Membrane Proteins; C491674:PPL protein, human; D051179:Plakins; D020033:Protein Isoforms; D012333:RNA, Messenger