Processes That Kill Phagocytosed Microbes

Agents include antimicrobial proteins and peptides, low pH, hydrolytic enzymes including lysozyme and proteases activated by the increasing acidity of the phagolysosomes, and specialized molecules that mediate oxidative attack.

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Adherens junctions

functions as a tension cable that can internally brace the cell and thereby control its shape

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Desmosomes

Adhesion type- Cell-cell

Cytoskeletal attachment- Intermediate filaments

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The key CAMs in desmosomes are the desmosomal cadherins, desmoglein and desmocollin

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Desmosomes

Function- Strength, durability, signaling

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Hemidesmosomes

Adhesion type- Cell-matrix

Cytoskeletal attachment- Intermediate filaments

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The principal ECM adhesion receptor in epithelial hemidesmosomes is integrin α6β4.