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Xinran O Zhao

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA;ORCID 0000-0003-0107-6077Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Research Focus:development & morphogenesis· 1 Organism:Drosophila· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Assay:imaging· 1 Organism:mouse· 1 Organism:Xenopus· 1

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Cell BiologybioRxivPreprintNov 3, 2026

Calcium and actomyosin pulses drive tricellular zipping to remodel epithelial cell-cell junctions and facilitate cell packing

Babli Adhikary, Xinran O Zhao, Ashley Shahi…·Ann L Miller

The paper identifies tricellular zipping as a mechanism for epithelial junction remodeling, driven by calcium and actomyosin pulses, and shows its role in cell packing across Xenopus, mouse, and Drosophila embryos.

DOI 10.64898/2026.10.30.763104

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