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| Term | bicellular tight junction | ID (Ontology) | GO:0005923 (Gene Ontology) | |||||||||||||||||
| Definition | An occluding cell-cell junction that is composed of a branching network of sealing strands that completely encircles the apical end of each cell in an epithelial sheet; the outer leaflets of the two interacting plasma membranes are seen to be tightly apposed where sealing strands are present. Each sealing strand is composed of a long row of transmembrane adhesion proteins embedded in each of the two interacting plasma membranes.[ ISBN:0815332181 ] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Also Known As | "zonula occludens" | |||||||||||||||||||
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cell-cell junction |__apical junction complex__ |__tight junction___________| bicellular tight junction 3 rec. |__host-symbiont bicellular tight junction |
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| Is a | tight junction | ||
| Part of | apical junction complex | ||
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NIF_Subcellular:sao1939999134 Wikipedia:Tight_junction |
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