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NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY
Volume 17, Issue 9, Pages 564-580Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nrm.2016.80
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- UK Medical Research Council
- UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
- Fight for Sight
- Wellcome Trust
- BBSRC [BB/N001133/1, BB/H002294/1, BB/L007584/1, BB/N014855/1, BB/J015032/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- MRC [G0900098, G0700743, G0400678] Funding Source: UKRI
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/N001133/1, BB/N014855/1, BB/L007584/1, BB/J015032/1, BB/H002294/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- British Heart Foundation [FS/16/23/32071] Funding Source: researchfish
- Fight for Sight [1393/94, 1740/41, 1846/1847] Funding Source: researchfish
- Medical Research Council [G0700743, G0900098, G0400678] Funding Source: researchfish
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Epithelia and endothelia separate different tissue compartments and protect multicellular organisms from the outside world. This requires the formation of tight junctions, selective gates that control paracellular diffusion of ions and solutes. Tight junctions also form the border between the apical and basolateral plasma-membrane domains and are linked to the machinery that controls apicobasal polarization. Additionally, signalling networks that guide diverse cell behaviours and functions are connected to tight junctions, transmitting information to and from the cytoskeleton, nucleus and different cell adhesion complexes. Recent advances have broadened our understanding of the molecular architecture and cellular functions of tight junctions.
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