Dr. Kanchanawong Pakorn Tony led an international research team which made use of super-resolution microscopy to reveal, for the first time, how the cell-cell contacts are organized. This provided the first-ever ‘map’ or ‘blueprint’ of how the cell-cell contact building blocks are pieced together into sophisticated nanoscale machines, akin to the ‘clutch’ in automobile transmission.
This study is published in Nature Cell Biology: Bertocchi, et al. Nanoscale architecture of cadherin-based cell adhesions. Nature Cell Biology 2016. doi: 10.1038/ncb3456