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bicellular tight junction assembly

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The aggregation, arrangement and bonding together of a set of components to form a tight junction, an occluding cell-cell junction that is composed of a branching network of sealing strands that completely encircles the apical end of each cell in an epithelial sheet. [ GOC:mah ]

Synonyms: tight junction formation