Anslutningspunkter, där cellskeletten till celler, gränsande till varandra, är sammankopplade. De utgörs av specialiserade områden på plasmahöljet, där buntar av mikrofilament fäster vid höljet genom transmembranlänkningsenheter, cadheriner, som i sin tur genom sina ytterstrukturer fäster vid angränsande cellers cadheriner. I cellskikt bildar de adhesionsband som helt omger cellerna.
Anchoring points where the CYTOSKELETON of neighboring cells are connected to each other. They are composed of specialized areas of the plasma membrane where bundles of the ACTIN CYTOSKELETON attach to the membrane through the transmembrane linkers, CADHERINS, which in turn attach through their extracellular domains to cadherins in the neighboring cell membranes. In sheets of cells, they form into adhesion belts (zonula adherens) that go all the way around a cell.
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Adherens Junction — Junction, Adherens — Junctions, Adherens — Zonula Adherens — Adherens, Zonula