"Adherens Junctions" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Anchoring points where the CYTOSKELETON of neighboring cells are connected to each other. They are composed of specialized areas of the plasma membrane where bundles of the ACTIN CYTOSKELETON attach to the membrane through the transmembrane linkers, CADHERINS, which in turn attach through their extracellular domains to cadherins in the neighboring cell membranes. In sheets of cells, they form into adhesion belts (zonula adherens) that go all the way around a cell.
Descriptor ID |
D022005
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MeSH Number(s) |
A11.284.149.165.420.020
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Concept/Terms |
Adherens Junctions- Adherens Junctions
- Adherens Junction
- Junction, Adherens
- Junctions, Adherens
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2005 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2009 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
2010 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Adherens Junctions" by people in Profiles.
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Li J, Swope D, Raess N, Cheng L, Muller EJ, Radice GL. Cardiac tissue-restricted deletion of plakoglobin results in progressive cardiomyopathy and activation of {beta}-catenin signaling. Mol Cell Biol. 2011 Mar; 31(6):1134-44.
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Leonard M, Zhang L, Zhai N, Cader A, Chan Y, Nowak RB, Fowler VM, Menko AS. Modulation of N-cadherin junctions and their role as epicenters of differentiation-specific actin regulation in the developing lens. Dev Biol. 2011 Jan 15; 349(2):363-77.
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Tsygankova OM, Ma C, Tang W, Korch C, Feldman MD, Lv Y, Brose MS, Meinkoth JL. Downregulation of Rap1GAP in human tumor cells alters cell/matrix and cell/cell adhesion. Mol Cell Biol. 2010 Jul; 30(13):3262-74.
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Stepniak E, Radice GL, Vasioukhin V. Adhesive and signaling functions of cadherins and catenins in vertebrate development. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol. 2009 Nov; 1(5):a002949.
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Nita-Lazar M, Noonan V, Rebustini I, Walker J, Menko AS, Kukuruzinska MA. Overexpression of DPAGT1 leads to aberrant N-glycosylation of E-cadherin and cellular discohesion in oral cancer. Cancer Res. 2009 Jul 15; 69(14):5673-80.
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Eddinger TJ, Schiebout JD, Swartz DR. Adherens junction-associated protein distribution differs in smooth muscle tissue and acutely isolated cells. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol. 2007 Feb; 292(2):G684-97.
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Eddinger TJ, Schiebout JD, Swartz DR. Smooth muscle adherens junctions associated proteins are stable at the cell periphery during relaxation and activation. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol. 2005 Dec; 289(6):C1379-87.
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Kostetskii I, Li J, Xiong Y, Zhou R, Ferrari VA, Patel VV, Molkentin JD, Radice GL. Induced deletion of the N-cadherin gene in the heart leads to dissolution of the intercalated disc structure. Circ Res. 2005 Feb 18; 96(3):346-54.