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Interactions of cell adhesions, Rho GTPases and actin in the endothelial cells' response to external forces are complex and not fully understood, but a qualitative understanding of the mechanosensory response begins to emerge. Here, we formulate a mathemat ...
P-cadherin expression is restricted to the basal layer of stratified epithelia including that of the mammary gland. Although evidence for an important role of P-cadherin in mammary morphogenesis and tumorigenesis is increasing, the mechanisms that regulate ...
The loss of epithelial differentiation in carcinomas, which is accompanied by increased mobility and invasiveness of the tumour cells, is often a consequence of reduced intercellular adhesion. Recent reports have indicated that the primary cause for the 's ...
Chaotropic agents are cosolutes that can disrupt the hydrogen bonding network between water molecules and reduce the stability of the native state of proteins by weakening the hydrophobic effect. In this work, we represent the chaotropic agent as a factor ...
The structure of the title compound, [La(C5H6O4)(C5H7O4)(H2O)] . H2O, consists of dense layers formed by chains of one-edge-sharing LaO9 (H2O) polyhedra, linked together by the glutarate ligand. The three-dimensional polymeric structure, built up through c ...
The extracellular domain of N-CAM contains five immunoglobulin-like (Ig) and two fibronectin type III-like domains and facilitates cell-cell binding through multiple, weak interdomain interactions. NMR spectroscopy indicated that the two N-terminal Ig-like ...
Reactions of metalated nucleophiles M(I)Y [Y = OR, SR, NR2, PR2, AsR2, CR3, Si(SiMe3)3, R = organyl, H] with bis(2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidino)aluminum halides [tmp2AlX, (X = Cl, Br, I)] offer facile access to a variety of bis(amino)alanes of the type tmp2 ...
The loss of epithelial differentiation in carcinomas, which is accompanied by higher mobility and invasiveness of the tumour cells, is often a consequence of reduced intercellular adhesion. The primary cause of the "scattering" of cells in invasive carcino ...
Myofibroblasts of wound granulation tissue, in contrast to dermal fibroblasts, join stress fibers at sites of cadherin-type intercellular adherens junctions (AJs). However, the function of myofibroblast AJs, their molecular composition, and the mechanisms ...
The biophysical properties of the interaction between fibronectin and its membrane receptor were inferred from adhesion tests on living cells. Individual fibroblasts were maintained on fibronectin-coated glass for short time periods (1-16 s) using optical ...