Table 1.

Correlation between the Expression Level of Ectopic Proteins and the Severity of ZO-1 Mislocalization

		ZO-1 staining						Small ring structure	Cells expressing detectable levels of ectopic aPKCs
Completely disappeared		Fragmentary		Complete
			%		%		%		%
LacZ		0	0	6	1.2	504	98.8	0	ND
aPKCλwt		0	0	0	0	564	100	0	38.8
PKCλkn		86	10.4	426	51.4	316	38.2		43.1
Expression level	−/+	9	1.9	198	42.0	264	56.1	37
	+	24	10.8	152	68.5	46	20.7	8	26.8
	++	30	33.7	54	60.7	5	5.6	1	10.7
	+++	23	50.0	22	47.8	1	2.1	0	5.65