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NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY
Volume 23, Issue 8, Pages 559-577Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41580-022-00465-y
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- Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellowship
- Wellcome Trust/Royal Society Henry Dale Fellowship
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Apical-basal polarity is crucial for the form and function of epithelial cells, determining cell adhesion, barrier function, specific cargo secretion, and cytoskeletal organization. Conserved polarity factors play important roles in establishing and maintaining apical-basal polarity, although different mechanisms may be involved in different epithelial tissues.
Apical-basal polarity is essential for epithelial cell form and function. Elucidating how distinct apical and basolateral compartments are established and maintained is essential to better understand the roles of apical-basal cell polarization in morphogenesis and how defects in polarity contribute to diseases such as cancer. Epithelial cells are the most common cell type in all animals, forming the sheets and tubes that compose most organs and tissues. Apical-basal polarity is essential for epithelial cell form and function, as it determines the localization of the adhesion molecules that hold the cells together laterally and the occluding junctions that act as barriers to paracellular diffusion. Polarity must also target the secretion of specific cargoes to the apical, lateral or basal membranes and organize the cytoskeleton and internal architecture of the cell. Apical-basal polarity in many cells is established by conserved polarity factors that define the apical (Crumbs, Stardust/PALS1, aPKC, PAR-6 and CDC42), junctional (PAR-3) and lateral (Scribble, DLG, LGL, Yurt and RhoGAP19D) domains, although recent evidence indicates that not all epithelia polarize by the same mechanism. Research has begun to reveal the dynamic interactions between polarity factors and how they contribute to polarity establishment and maintenance. Elucidating these mechanisms is essential to better understand the roles of apical-basal polarity in morphogenesis and how defects in polarity contribute to diseases such as cancer.
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