Two tiny mitochondria associations with a tangential section of a desmosome. Hepatocyte. 5893_2222. Not a particularly stunning micrograph, but sure documentation that mitochondria associate with desmosomes in hampster liver parenchymal cells.
Daily Archives: December 18, 2017
Who could guess that desmosomes know hebrew?
Was looking at this model for the cadherins of a desmosome and I just happened to see “shin” there in reds and oranges. I love it when nature intersects civilization in an unexpected manner…. so fun, ha ha. Just out of deference to the authors of this paper on desmosomes, 3D and electron microscopy I will list their reference in case you want to actually see the original. Al-Amoudi, et al., Nature05994 (2007) 