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Cell polarity: Versatile scaffolds keep things in place
C Yeaman1, K K Grindstaff, M D Hansen
1Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Beckman Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305-5345, USA.
Current Biology : CB
|July 27, 1999
Abstract:
Protein scaffolds organize transmembrane and cytoplasmic proteins and serve to integrate both structure and signaling at the apical junctional complex of polarized epithelial cells. These scaffolds are important in coordinating local and global changes in cell organization.