tight junction
id: GO:0005923
name: tight junction
namespace: cellular_component
type: go
obsolete: False
Description: 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.
Parent Functions
id | name |
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GO:0070160 | occluding junction |