BookTony Harris, editor.
Contents:
Introduction to adherens junctions: from molecular mechanisms to tissue development and disease
How AJs evolved
Evolution of the cadherin-catenin complex
How cadherins and catenins interact to assemble AJs
Three-dimensional structure of the cadherin-catenin complex
Biophysics of cadherin adhesion
Adherens junction assembly
How AJs interface with other cellular machinery
Cytoskeleton and classical cadherin adhesions
Immunoglobulin superfamily receptors and adherens junctions
Signaling from the adherens junction
Adherens junction turnover: regulating adhesion through cadherin endocytosis, degradation, and recycling
How AJs affect cell behaviour and multicellular development
Adherens junctions during cell migration
Adherens junctions and cadherins in Drosophilia development
Adherens junctions in C. elegans embryonic morphogenesis
Cadherin function during xenopus gastrulation
Adherens junctions in mammalian development, homeostasis and disease: lessons from mice
How AJs affect tissue homeostasis and disease
Adherens junctions and stem cells
Adherens junctions and cancer
Adherens junctions and pathogen entry.