Primary Recipient

LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, THE

Amount

$82,495.00

Award Date

1/07/2010

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

The assembly of cells into tissues depends upon formation of intercellular junctions. In adherens junctions, the catenins link transmembrane cadherin cell adhesion molecules to the actin-based cytoskeleton, and in desmosomes an analogous protein assembly