Tight junctions, also known as occluding junctions or zonulae occludentes (singular, zonula occludens), are multiprotein junctional complexes whose canonical...
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Tight junction proteins (TJ proteins) are molecules situated at the tight junctions of epithelial, endothelial and myelinated cells. This multiprotein...
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Tight junction protein are proteins that are involved in the formation and functioning of tight junctions; "Tight junction protein" may refer to: TJP1...
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of cell junction: Adherens junctions, desmosomes and hemidesmosomes (anchoring junctions) Gap junctions (communicating junction) Tight junctions (occluding...
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Tight junction protein ZO-1 also known as Zonula Occludens-1 (ZO-1), is a 220-kD peripheral membrane protein that is encoded by the TJP1 gene in humans...
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molecules, substrates, and metabolites. Gap junctions were first described as close appositions as other tight junctions, but following electron microscopy studies...
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cell–matrix junctions in epithelial and endothelial tissues, usually more basal than tight junctions. An adherens junction is defined as a cell junction whose...
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Intestinal epithelium (section Tight junctions)
of cell junction which can be identified at the ultrastructural level: Gap junctions Desmosomes Adherens junctions Tight junctions Gap junctions bring the...
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Cell–cell interaction (section Tight junctions)
junctions is dependent on a variety of factors including protein makeup of that junction, tissue type and signaling from the cells. Tight junctions are...
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short amino acid sequences at the C-terminus of proteins, to form tight junctions in both epithelial and endothelial cells as polarity is gained in the...
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