Nature Communications (May 2017)

ACF7 regulates inflammatory colitis and intestinal wound response by orchestrating tight junction dynamics

  • Yanlei Ma,
  • Jiping Yue,
  • Yao Zhang,
  • Chenzhang Shi,
  • Matt Odenwald,
  • Wenguang G. Liang,
  • Qing Wei,
  • Ajay Goel,
  • Xuewen Gou,
  • Jamie Zhang,
  • Shao-Yu Chen,
  • Wei-Jen Tang,
  • Jerrold R. Turner,
  • Feng Yang,
  • Hong Liang,
  • Huanlong Qin,
  • Xiaoyang Wu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15375
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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The cytoskeleton plays a key role in cell/cell junction formation, but how the coordinated behaviour of the cytoskeleton contributes is not known. Here the authors show that actin-microtubule crosslinker ACF7 plays a key role in tight junction stabilization and wound healing in intestinal epithelium.