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SUBMITTER: Wang LT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8338993 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wang Li-Ting LT Rajah Abira A Brown Claire M CM McCaffrey Luke L
Nature communications 20210804 1
Polarized epithelial cells can organize into complex structures with a characteristic central lumen. Lumen formation requires that cells coordinately orient their polarity axis so that the basolateral domain is on the outside and apical domain inside epithelial structures. Here we show that the transmembrane aminopeptidase, CD13, is a key determinant of epithelial polarity orientation. CD13 localizes to the apical membrane and associates with an apical complex with Par6. CD13-deficient cells dis ...[more]