title: Ménage a Trois to Form the Tricellular Junction.
abstract: Tricellular junctions tightly seal epithelia at the corners of three cells. In this issue of Developmental Cell, Byri et al. (2015) show that Anakonda, a novel Drosophila transmembrane protein, contains an unusual tripartite extracellular domain organization, which explains the tripartite septum filling the tricellular junction, previously revealed by ultrastructure analysis.
authors.affiliation: Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Pfotenhauerstrasse 108, 01307-Dresden, Germany.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Flores-Benitez
authors.affiliation: Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Pfotenhauerstrasse 108, 01307-Dresden, Germany. Electronic address: knust@mpi-cbg.de.
authors.forename: Elisabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Knust
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D030801:Animals, Genetically Modified / Q000378:metabolism*; D029721:Drosophila Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D004331:Drosophila melanogaster / Q000378:metabolism*; D004625:Embryo, Nonmammalian / Q000166:cytology*; D004848:Epithelium / Q000254:growth & development*; D007365:Intercellular Junctions / Q000502:physiology*; D019108:Tight Junctions / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D029721:Drosophila Proteins