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GO: Cellular Component
bicellular tight junction
- Term ID
- GO:0005923
- Synonyms
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- zonula occludens
- Definition
- An occluding cell-cell junction that is composed of a branching network of sealing strands that completely encircles the apical end of each cell in an epithelial sheet; the outer leaflets of the two interacting plasma membranes are seen to be tightly apposed where sealing strands are present. Each sealing strand is composed of a long row of transmembrane adhesion proteins embedded in each of the two interacting plasma membranes. 0815332181
- References
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- NIF_Subcellular:sao1939999134
- Wikipedia:Tight_junction
- Ontology
- GO: Cellular Component QuickGO AmiGO
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Phenotype
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