Plakophilin-3 Is Required for Late Embryonic Amphibian Development, Exhibiting Roles in Ectodermal and Neural Tissues

• William A. Munoz,

  Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Program in Genes and Development, University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Science, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Malgorzata Kloc,

  Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Surgery, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Kyucheol Cho ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kyucheol Cho, Moonsup Lee

  Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Program in Genes and Development, University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Science, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Moonsup Lee ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kyucheol Cho, Moonsup Lee

  Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Program in Genes and Development, University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Science, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Ilse Hofmann,

  Affiliation Joint Research Division Vascular Biology of the Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg- DKFZ, Mannheim, Germany

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• Amy Sater,

  Affiliation Biology and Biochemistry Department, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Kris Vleminckx,

  Affiliation Department for Molecular Biomedical Research, Flanders Institute for Biotechnology VIB, Ghent, Belgium

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• Pierre D. McCrea

  * E-mail: pdmccrea@mdanderson.org

  Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Program in Genes and Development, University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Science, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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