Cell Shape by Coercion: Par1 and aPKC Put the Squeeze on Junctions
- Sumigray, Kaelyn D.
- Peifer, Mark
Publication date
May 2012
DOI Publisher
Elsevier Inc. ISSN
1534-5807 Citation count (estimate)
1Abstract
Epithelial sheets form the basic architectural unit of most tissues and organs. To form complex organs, these sheets are folded and reshaped by cell-shape changes. Reporting recently in Nature, Wang et al. (2012) describe a myosin-independent mechanism that links the regulation of apical-basal polarity to tissue morphogenesis
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