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SUBMITTER: Lagendijk AK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5680264 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lagendijk Anne Karine AK Gomez Guillermo A GA Baek Sungmin S Hesselson Daniel D Hughes William E WE Paterson Scott S Conway Daniel E DE Belting Heinz-Georg HG Affolter Markus M Smith Kelly A KA Schwartz Martin A MA Yap Alpha S AS Hogan Benjamin M BM
Nature communications 20171110 1
Forces play diverse roles in vascular development, homeostasis and disease. VE-cadherin at endothelial cell-cell junctions links the contractile acto-myosin cytoskeletons of adjacent cells, serving as a tension-transducer. To explore tensile changes across VE-cadherin in live zebrafish, we tailored an optical biosensor approach, originally established in vitro. We validate localization and function of a VE-cadherin tension sensor (TS) in vivo. Changes in tension across VE-cadherin observed using ...[more]