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Hemidesmosomes are cellular attachment structures of great importance to the epidermis. In this issue of Immunity, Zhang et al. (2015) have discovered that in addition to having structural functions, invertebrate and human hemidesmosomes are actively monitored by the cell as a novel mechanism for detecting pathogenic infection.