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Components of an individual tight junction. Tight junctions are protein complexes composed of 3 subcomponents: 1) transmembrane proteins (such as claudin family of proteins), 2) cytoskeletal elements (such as actin and myosin filaments), and 3) scaffolding proteins called zonula occludens (Zihni et al., 2016).
