ReviewMolecular biology of the cell2017
Tricellular junctions: how to build junctions at the TRICkiest points of epithelial cells.
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- Zyxin and LPP differ in their sensing of strained actin filaments at tricellular junctions.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Tricellulin regulates the tight junctions and cytoskeleton of pancreatic acinar cells through the NF-κB pathway in hypertriglyceridemic acute pancreatitis.Biomedical reports · 2026Article
- Sidekick2 facilitates multiciliated cell penetration through multicellular adherens junctions.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Genetically engineered ESC-derived embryos reveal Vinculin-dependent force responses required for mammalian neural tube closure.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Control of renal calcium permeability via a tight junctional claudin switch.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Paths to stability - actin regulation of adherens junction mechanics.Journal of cell science · 2025Review
- PAK4 promotes vertex remodeling to maintain epithelial integrity and barrier function.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Roles of protein-protein interactions and monolayer mechanics in tricellulin localization to tricellular tight junctions.Biology open · 2025Article
- Myocardin-related transcription factor regulates actomyosin contractility and apical junction remodeling during vertebrate neural tube closure.Development (Cambridge, England) · 2025Article
- Mechanical cues polarize ADIP protein complexes to control vertebrate morphogenesis and wound healing.Current biology : CB · 2025Article
- Shaping epithelial tissues by stem cell mechanics in development and cancer.Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology · 2025Review
- α-Catenin force-sensitive binding and sequestration of LZTS2 leads to cytokinesis failure.The Journal of cell biology · 2025Article
- The rat bladder umbrella cell keratin network: Organization, dependence on the plectin cytolinker, and responses to bladder filling.Molecular biology of the cell · 2024Article
- Mechanosensitive recruitment of Vinculin maintains junction integrity and barrier function at epithelial tricellular junctions.Current biology : CB · 2024Article
- The interplay between the epithelial permeability barrier, cell migration and mitochondrial metabolism of growth factors and their inhibitors in a human endometrial carcinoma cell line.Tissue barriers · 2024Article
- The umbrella cell keratin network: organization as a tile-like mesh, formation of a girded layer in response to bladder filling, and dependence on the plectin cytolinker.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Adherens junctions as molecular regulators of emergent tissue mechanics.Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology · 2024Review
- Palmitoylation of proteolipid protein M6 promotes tricellular junction assembly in epithelia of Drosophila.Journal of cell science · 2024Article
- Actin-templated Structures: Nature's Way to Hierarchical Surface Patterns (Gecko's Setae as Case Study).Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2024Article
- ZnUMBA - a live imaging method to detect local barrier breaches.Journal of cell science · 2023Article
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Abstract
Tricellular contacts are the places where three cells meet. In vertebrate epithelial cells, specialized structures called tricellular tight junctions (tTJs) and tricellular adherens junctions (tAJs) have been identified. tTJs are important for the maintenance of barrier function, and disruption of tTJ proteins contributes to familial deafness. tAJs have recently been attracting the attention of mechanobiologists because these sites are hot spots of epithelial tension. Although the molecular components, regulation, and function of tTJs and tAJs, as well as of invertebrate tricellular junctions, are beginning to be characterized, many questions remain. Here we broadly cover what is known about tricellular junctions, propose a new model for tension transmission at tAJs, and discuss key open questions.
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