Cell Biology: Tight Junctions as Biomolecular Condensates

Two recent studies report that ZO proteins, the main scaffolding proteins of tight junctions, undergo liquid phase separation. This new concept provides understanding at the mechanistic level of how tight junctions are formed and how they participate in mechanochemical signaling in early development.

• Publication year

  2020

• Venue

  Current Biology

• Publication date

  2020-01-20

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1016/j.cub.2019.11.060PMID 31962084
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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