Productive tension: Force-sensing and homeostasis of cell-cell junctions

Trends in Cell Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 499-505

  Gomez, Guillermo A ^a   McLachlan, Robert W ^a   Yap, Alpha S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; CADHERIN;

CELL INTERACTION; CELL JUNCTION; CELL MATURATION; CYTOLOGY; CYTOSKELETON; HOMEOSTASIS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; METASTASIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TENSION; TUMOR GROWTH;

ACTIN CYTOSKELETON; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; BIOMECHANICS; CADHERINS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL ADHESION; CELL LINE; CELL MEMBRANE; HOMEOSTASIS; INTERCELLULAR JUNCTIONS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MYOSIN TYPE II; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TENSILE STRENGTH; VINCULIN;

EID: 80052165058     PISSN: 09628924     EISSN: 18793088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tcb.2011.05.006     Document Type: Review

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