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SUBMITTER: Jodoin JN
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4699402 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jodoin Jeanne N JN Coravos Jonathan S JS Chanet Soline S Vasquez Claudia G CG Tworoger Michael M Kingston Elena R ER Perkins Lizabeth A LA Perrimon Norbert N Martin Adam C AC
Developmental cell 20151210 6
The propagation of force in epithelial tissues requires that the contractile cytoskeletal machinery be stably connected between cells through E-cadherin-containing adherens junctions. In many epithelial tissues, the cells' contractile network is positioned at a distance from the junction. However, the mechanism or mechanisms that connect the contractile networks to the adherens junctions, and thus mechanically connect neighboring cells, are poorly understood. Here, we identified the role for F-a ...[more]