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Building intestinal brush borders

Posted by on Thursday, February 11, 2016 in Uncategorized .

Matthew Tyska, Ph.D., and colleagues previously discovered that the brush border’s densely packed microvilli – finger-like membrane protrusions – are connected to each other via cadherin adhesion molecules. Now, the investigators have demonstrated a critical role for a protein called ANKS4B in stabilizing the cadherin-based adhesions between microvilli to build a normal brush border.

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