Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 2014 During brain development, radial glial cells possess an apico-basal polarity and are coupled by adherens junctions to an F-actin belt. To elucidate the role of the actin, we conditionally deleted the key component α-E-catenin in the developing cerebral ...
Marie-Theres eSchmid +7 more
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Cell-cell adhesions and cell contractility are upregulated upon desmosome disruption. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Desmosomes are perturbed in a number of disease states - including genetic disorders, autoimmune and bacterial diseases. Here, we report unexpected changes in other cell-cell adhesion structures upon loss of desmosome function. We found that perturbation
Kaelyn Sumigray +2 more
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Heart of glass anchors Rasip1 at endothelial cell-cell junctions to support vascular integrity. [PDF]
, 2016 Heart of Glass (HEG1), a transmembrane receptor, and Rasip1, an endothelial-specific Rap1-binding protein, are both essential for cardiovascular development.
de Kreuk, Bart-Jan +5 more
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Sphingomyelin metabolism is involved in the differentiation of MDCK cells induced by environmental hypertonicity [PDF]
, 2015 Sphingolipids (SLs) are relevant lipid components of eukaryotic cells. Besides regulating various cellular processes, SLs provide the structural framework for plasma membrane organization.
Favale, Nicolas Octavio +4 more
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Cells, 2021 Dysfunction of the endothelial barrier plays a central role in the pathogenesis of both acute and chronic inflammatory processes such as sepsis or atherosclerosis.
Daniel Maucher +2 more
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Patterns in Space: Coordinating Adhesion and Actomyosin Contractility at E-cadherin Junctions
, 2013 Cadherin adhesion receptors are fundamental determinants of tissue organization in health and disease. Increasingly, we have come to appreciate that classical cadherins exert their biological actions through active cooperation with the contractile actin ...
Wu, Selwin K., Yap, Alpha S.
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Dysbiosis and zonulin upregulation alter gut epithelial and vascular barriers in patients with ankylosing spondylitis [PDF]
, 2017 Background: Dysbiosis has been recently demonstrated in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) but its implications in the modulation of intestinal immune responses have never been studied.
Alessandro, Riccardo +13 more
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Diverse cell junctions with unique molecular composition in tissues of a sponge (Porifera)
EvoDevo, 2019 The integrity and organization of animal tissues depend upon specialized protein complexes that mediate adhesion between cells with each other (cadherin-based adherens junctions), and with the extracellular matrix (integrin-based focal adhesions ...
Jennyfer M. Mitchell, Scott A. Nichols
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Afadin orients cell division to position the tubule lumen in developing renal tubules [PDF]
, 2017 In many types of tubules, continuity of the lumen is paramount to tubular function, yet how tubules generate lumen continuity in vivo is not known. We recently found the F-actin binding protein Afadin is required for lumen continuity in developing renal ...
Brakeman, Paul R. +9 more
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Tyrosine-Based Signals Regulate the Assembly of Daple⋅PARD3 Complex at Cell-Cell Junctions. [PDF]
, 2020 Polarized distribution of organelles and molecules inside a cell is vital for a range of cellular processes and its loss is frequently encountered in disease.
Choi, Julie +6 more
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