About The Medical Condition Adherens Junctions

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Adherens Junctions

Adherens Junctions Medical Condition Defined & Explained
Adherens Junctions Medical Condition

What's The Definition Of The Medical Condition Adherens Junctions?

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 MICROFILAMENTS 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.

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