Examples of cadherin in the following topics:
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- They link the actin microfilaments to the
cadherins.
- Cadherins, namely E-cadherin.
- The extracellular part of one cell’s cadherin binds to the extracellular
part of the adjacent cell’s cadherin in the space between the two cells.
- Each
cell’s cadherin molecule also contains a tail that inserts itself inside its
respective cell.
- This intracellular
(within the cell) tail then links up to catenin proteins to form the cadherin–catenin
complex.
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- The cell adhesion proteins of the desmosome - desmoglein and desmocollin - are members of the cadherin family of cell adhesion molecules.
- They are transmembrane proteins that bridge the space between adjacent epithelial cells by way of homophilic binding of their extracellular domains to other desmosomal cadherins on the adjacent cell.
- The Outer Dense Plaque is where the cytoplasmic domains of the cadherins attach to desmoplakin via plakoglobin and plakophillin.