Disruption of Claudin-Made Tight Junction Barriers by Clostridium perfringens Enterotoxin: Insights from Structural Biology

CP Ogbu, S Roy, AJ Vecchio - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
Claudins are a family of integral membrane proteins that enable epithelial cell/cell
interactions by localizing to and driving the formation of tight junctions. Via claudin self …

Morphologic determinant of tight junctions revealed by claudin-3 structures

S Nakamura, K Irie, H Tanaka, K Nishikawa… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Tight junction is a cell adhesion apparatus functioning as barrier and/or channel in the
paracellular spaces of epithelia. Claudin is the major component of tight junction and …

Biophysics of claudin proteins in tight junction architecture: three decades of progress

P Marsch, N Rajagopal, S Nangia - Biophysical Journal, 2024 - cell.com
Tight junctions are cell-cell adhesion complexes that act as gatekeepers of the paracellular
space. Formed by several transmembrane proteins, the claudin family performs the primary …

[PDF][PDF] Proteine involviert in Membran-Strukturierung

L Ahlswede - openscience.ub.uni-mainz.de
Humanes Tetraspanin-8 ist ein Mitglied der Tetraspanin-Superfamilie und klinisch relevant
bei diversen Krebserkrankungen. In dieser Arbeit konnte Tetraspanin-8 erfolgreich …