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NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY
Volume 9, Issue 11, Pages 887-901Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nrm2523
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- National Institutes of Health
- Susan G. Komen Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship
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How do animal cells assemble into tissues and organs? A diverse array of tissue structures and shapes can be formed by organizing groups of cells into different polarized arrangements and by coordinating their polarity in space and time. Conserved design principles underlying this diversity are emerging from studies of model organisms and tissues. We discuss how conserved polarity complexes, signalling networks, transcription factors, membrane-trafficking pathways, mechanisms for forming lumens in tubes and other hollow structures, and transitions between different types of polarity, such as between epithelial and mesenchymal cells, are used in similar and iterative manners to build all tissues.
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