tight junction disassembly
The disaggregation of an tight junction into its constituent components. [ GOC:TermGenie http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18718461 GOC:rl http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/go/references/0000079 GOC:BHF ]
Synonyms: occluding junction disassembly, occluding cell junction disassembly