Integration of contractile forces during tissue invagination
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- 1 March 2010
- journal article
- Published by Rockefeller University Press in The Journal of cell biology
- Vol. 188 (5), 735-749
- https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.200910099
Abstract
Transcription factor Twist promotes cell junctions to link individual cells into a contractile network responsible for the apical constriction pulses during epithelial morphogenesis.Keywords
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