Cell junctions: lessons from a broken heart.
In a case of the familiar being strange, new work shows that the integrity of the Drosophila cardiac system depends on septate-junction proteins even though the heart lacks discernable septate junctions.
Nelson
Kevin S
KS
Department of Biochemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA.
Beitel
Greg J
GJ
D000818:Animals; D004330:Drosophila / Q000502:physiology*; D006321:Heart / Q000196:embryology*; D007365:Intercellular Junctions / Q000502:physiology*; D009024:Morphogenesis / Q000502:physiology; D009206:Myocardium / Q000166:cytology*; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000502:physiology