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Transmembrane proteins of tight junctions.
Journal article

Transmembrane proteins of tight junctions.

  • Balda MS Département de Biologie Cellulaire, Université de Genève Sciences III, 30, Quai Ernest-Ansermet, 1211 Genève-4, Switzerland. Matter@cellbio.unige.ch
  • Matter K
  • 2000-09-01
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  • Seminars in cell & developmental biology. - 2000
Animals
Cell Adhesion Molecules
Cell Movement
Humans
Junctional Adhesion Molecules
Leukocytes
Membrane Proteins
Models, Biological
Occludin
Tight Junctions
English Tight junctions from a morphological and functional boundary between the apical and basolateral cell surface domains of epithelia and endothelia, and regulate selective diffusion along the paracellular space. Two types of four-span transmembrane proteins, occludin and claudins, as well as the single-span protein JAM are associated with tight junctions. The functional analysis of these proteins starts to reveal how they are involved in the functions of tight junctions, which of their domains are important for these functions, and how they interact with each other to form the junctional diffusion barriers.
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  • English
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