Plakoglobin <i>Jup</i> null-mutant embryos die from embryonic day 10.5 onward due to severe heart defects. Some mutant embryos develop further, especially on a C57BL/6 background. These mice die around birth, presumably due to cardiac dysfunction, and with skin blistering and subcorneal acantholysis. The skin phenotype in plakoglobin-deficient mice is reminiscent of the human blistering disease, epidermolytic hyperkeratosis.

These <i> Jup</i> knock-out mice exhibit embryonic or early death with skin blistering and subcorneal acantholysis.

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