Term Information

Accession
GO:0005923
Name
bicellular tight junction
Ontology
cellular_component
Synonyms
zonula occludens
Alternate IDs
None
Definition
An occluding cell-cell junction that is composed of a branching network of sealing strands that completely encircles the apical end of each cell in an epithelial sheet; the outer leaflets of the two interacting plasma membranes are seen to be tightly apposed where sealing strands are present. Each sealing strand is composed of a long row of transmembrane adhesion proteins embedded in each of the two interacting plasma membranes. Source: GOC:mah, ISBN:0815332181
Comment
None
History
See term history for GO:0005923 at QuickGO
Subset
None
Feedback
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Parents of bicellular tight junction (GO:0005923)
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bicellular tight junction [BFO:0000050 relation] BFO:0000050  apical junction complex (GO:0043296)
bicellular tight junction [is_a relation] is_a  tight junction (GO:0070160)
Children of bicellular tight junction (GO:0005923)
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host-symbiont bicellular tight junction (GO:0044647) [is_a relation] is_a  bicellular tight junction
NIF_Subcellular
sao1939999134
Wikipedia
Tight_junction