Cto - Cell Adhesion

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Most common additional polymer in secondary cell wall?

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Lignin

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Forms microfibrils in secondary cell wall?

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Cellulose

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Long complex polysaccharide abundant in primary cell wall?

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Pectin

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Resists compression in plant cell wall?

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Pectin

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Tensile strength in plant cell wall?

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Cellulose microfibrils

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Added strength in plant cell wall?

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Cross-linking polysaccharides

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Enzyme complex that synthesises cellulose?

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Cellulose synthase

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Bone properties?

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Hard and dense

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Cartilage properties?

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Resilient and shock-absorbing

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Tendon properties?

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Tough and flexible

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Vitreous humour properties?

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Soft and transparent

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Concentric rings of mineralised matrix around central canal in bone?

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Osteons

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Mineralised substance that gives bone strength?

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Hydroxyapatite

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Collagen precursor?

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Procollagen

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Enzyme that cleaves terminal procollagen extensions?

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Proteinase

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Extracellular protein that binds collagen?

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Fibronectin

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Transmembrane heterodimer that connects cytoskeleton to collagen?

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Integrin

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Repeating disaccharide units, negatively charged, resist compression?

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GAGs

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GAGs linked to core proteins?

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Proteoglycans

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Main components of basal lamina?

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Type IV collagen and laminin

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Heterotrimer abundant in basal lamina, linking role?

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Laminin

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Protein components of tight junctions?

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Claudin and occludin

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Key component in adherens junctions and desmosomes?

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Cadherin

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Part of cytoskeleton linked by adherens junctions?

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Actin filaments

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Filaments connected by desmosomes?

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Keratin

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Junction connecting keratin in cell to basal lamina via integrins?

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Hemidesmosome

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Junctions that allow passage of small, water-soluble molecules?

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Gap junctions

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Proteins that align to form channels in gap junctions?

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Connexons

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Plant version of gap junctions?

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Plasmodesmata

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Cadherin expressed in ectoderm?

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E-cadherin

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Cadherin expressed in neural tube as it pinches off?

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N-cadherin

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Cadherin expressed in migrating neural crest cells?

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Cadherin 7

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EMT?

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Epithelial-mesenchymal transition

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Spreading of cancer?

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Metastasis

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Cell surface proteins, mediate transient cell-cell adhesions in bloodstream?

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Selectins

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Proteins that allow tissue invasion by WBCs?

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Integrins

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Proteins that hold and stabilise synapses?

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Scaffold proteins

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Two main matrix-degrading enzyme groups?

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Matrix metalloproteases and serine proteases