The tight junction: Morphology to molecules

Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 14, Issue , 1998, Pages 89-109

  Stevenson, Bruce R ^a   Keon, Brigitte H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Epithelium; Intercellular junctions; MAGUK protein family; Paracellular pathway; Tumor suppressor

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; BASOLATERAL MEMBRANE; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EPITHELIUM CELL; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN FAMILY; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIGHT JUNCTION; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ANIMALS; ENDOTHELIUM; EPITHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; TIGHT JUNCTIONS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032440448     PISSN: 10810706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.cellbio.14.1.89     Document Type: Review

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