PANTHER Class Information 
| Name: | bicellular tight junction |
| Definition: | An occluding cell-cell junction that is composed of a branching network of sealing strands that completely encircles the apical end of each cell in an epithelial sheet; the outer leaflets of the two interacting plasma membranes are seen to be tightly apposed where sealing strands are present. Each sealing strand is composed of a long row of transmembrane adhesion proteins embedded in each of the two interacting plasma membranes. |
| Class ID: | GO:0005923 |
| Parent Lineages: |
cellular_component>
cellular anatomical entity>
cell junction>
anchoring junction>
cell-cell junction>
apical junction complex>
bicellular tight junction
cellular_component> cellular anatomical entity> cell junction> anchoring junction> cell-cell junction> tight junction> bicellular tight junction |
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| Number Subfamilies/Families: | 95 |
