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Facts about Periplakin.
May act as a localization signal in PKB/AKT-mediated signaling. .
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | PPL |
| Uniprot: | O60437 |
| Entrez: | 5493 |

| Belongs to: |
|---|
| plakin or cytolinker family |

190 kDa paraneoplastic pemphigus antigen; 195 kDa cornified envelope precursor protein; KIAA0568; MGC134872; periplakin
Mass (kDA):
204.747 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 16p13.3 |
| Sequence: | 16; NC_000016.10 (4882507..4937148, complement) |
Expressed in stratified squamous epithelia and in some other epithelia.
Cell junction, desmosome. Cytoplasm, cytoskeleton. Cell membrane. Nucleus. Mitochondrion. Associated with desmosomes and intermediate filaments.





PMID: 9412476 by Ruhrberg C., et al. Periplakin, a novel component of cornified envelopes and desmosomes that belongs to the plakin family and forms complexes with envoplakin.
PMID: 9521878 by Aho S., et al. cDNA cloning, mRNA expression, and chromosomal mapping of human and mouse periplakin genes.