symbiont-mediated perturbation of host tight cell-cell junction
symbiont-mediated perturbation of host tight cell-cell junction
The process in which an organism effects a change that impairs the structure or temporarily subverts the tight cell-cell junctions between cells of the host. Tight cell-cell junctions, a cell-cell junction that seals cells together in an epithelium in a way that prevents even small molecules from leaking from one side of the sheet to the other.