Making Connections: Guidance Cues and Receptors at Nonneural Cell-Cell Junctions

Autor: Beamish, Ian V, Hinck, Lindsay, Kennedy, Timothy E
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Beamish, IV; Hinck, L; & Kennedy, TE. (2018). Making Connections: Guidance Cues and Receptors at Nonneural Cell-Cell Junctions.. Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology, 10(11). doi: 10.1101/cshperspect.a029165. UC Santa Cruz: Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/4v37k976
Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology, vol 10, iss 11
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a029165.
Popis: The field of axon guidance was revolutionized over the past three decades by the identification of highly conserved families of guidance cues and receptors. These proteins are essential for normal neural development and function, directing cell and axon migration, neuron-glial interactions, and synapse formation and plasticity. Many of these genes are also expressed outside the nervous system in which they influence cell migration, adhesion and proliferation. Because the nervous system develops from neural epithelium, it is perhaps not surprising that these guidance cues have significant nonneural roles in governing the specialized junctional connections between cells in polarized epithelia. The following review addresses roles for ephrins, semaphorins, netrins, slits and their receptors in regulating adherens, tight, and gap junctions in nonneural epithelia and endothelia.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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