As a doctoral student in the lab of Drs. Margaret Wheelock and Keith Johnson at the University of Toledo, Dr. Islam focused on identifying a link
between cadherins (a family of cell adhesion proteins) and tumorigenesis (start of cancer cell formation).
Not exact matches
The accumulation of different amounts of
cadherins produced different levels of adhesiveness
between cell junctions, resulting in a mosaic pattern.
Through further testing, they figured out that when Notch1 is activated and its intracellular domain is released, its TMD assembles a complex in the membrane with the proteins VE -
cadherin, Rac1, LAR, and Trio, which collectively assemble and maintain the adherens junctions
between cells and distribute actin fibers against the cell membrane to support those junctions.
«So we were able to show a complete correlation
between miR - 200 and E -
cadherin / Vimentin expression,» Peter added.
Dynamics
between actin and the VE -
cadherin / catenin complex: novel aspects of the ARP2 / 3 complex in regulation of endothelial junctions.