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Establishment and characterization of cultured epithelial cells lacking expression of ZO-1.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 22 Oct 2004
Umeda Kazuaki, Matsui Takeshi, Nakayama Mayumi, Furuse Kyoko, Sasaki Hiroyuki, Furuse Mikio, Tsukita Shoichiro
Abstract excerpt
In well polarized epithelial cells, closely related ZO-1 and ZO-2 are thought to function as scaffold proteins at tight junctions (TJs). In epithelial cells at the initial phase of polarization, these proteins are recruited to cadherin-based spotlike adherens junctions (AJs). As a first step to clarify the function of ZO-1, we successfully generated mouse epithelial cell clones lacking ZO-1 expression (ZO-1-/-...
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