title: Cell adhesion: sizing up a sticky situation.
abstract: Cadherins, the principal cell adhesion molecules in animal tissues, come in clusters. A combination of super-resolution microscopy and modeling now reveals the sizes of these clusters and gives clues to how they are assembled.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois, 127 RAL, Box C-3, 600 South Mathews Avenue, Urbana IL 61801, USA. Electronic address: leckband@illinois.edu.
authors.forename: Deborah
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Leckband
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D015820:Cadherins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism*; D029721:Drosophila Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D015820:Cadherins; D029721:Drosophila Proteins; C501889:shg protein, Drosophila