Live imaging molecular changes in junctional tension upon VE-cadherin in zebrafish

Mechanical forces play a crucial role during morphogenesis, but how these are sensed and transduced in vivo is not fully understood. Here the authors apply a FRET tension sensor to live zebrafish and study changes in VE-cadherin tension at endothelial cell-cell junctions during arterial maturation.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Anne Karine Lagendijk, Guillermo A. Gomez, Sungmin Baek, Daniel Hesselson, William E. Hughes, Scott Paterson, Daniel E. Conway, Heinz-Georg Belting, Markus Affolter, Kelly A. Smith, Martin A. Schwartz, Alpha S. Yap, Benjamin M. Hogan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-11-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01325-6