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SUBMITTER: Fuchs P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8782857 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fuchs Peter P Drexler Corinne C Ratajczyk Sonia S Eckhart Leopold L
Scientific reports 20220121 1
The adaptation of vertebrates to different environments was associated with changes in the molecular composition and regulation of epithelia. Whales and dolphins, together forming the clade cetaceans, have lost multiple epithelial keratins during or after their evolutionary transition from life on land to life in water. It is unknown whether the changes in keratins were accompanied by gain or loss of cytoskeletal adapter proteins of the plakin family. Here we investigated whether plakin proteins ...[more]