Cover Image: Disassembly of the apical junctional complex during the transmigration of Leptospira interrogans across polarized renal proximal tubule epithelial cells (Cellular Microbiology 09/2021)

Abstract

Focused ion beam-scanning electron microscopy image of renal proximal tubule epithelial cells infected for 24 hrs with Leptospira interrogans. Leptospires localized in the gap between two adjacent cells (red and blue). For further details, readers are referred to the article by Sebastián et al. on p. e13343 of this issue.