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TRENDS IN CELL BIOLOGY
卷 22, 期 6, 页码 299-310出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tcb.2012.03.004
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- National Institutes of Health [R01 GM062270]
- National Science Foundation [MCB-0918535]
- Div Of Molecular and Cellular Bioscience
- Direct For Biological Sciences [918535] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Cadherins are a superfamily of cell surface glycoproteins whose ectodomains contain multiple repeats of beta-sandwich extracellular cadherin (EC) domains that adopt a similar fold to immunoglobulin domains. The best characterized cadherins are the vertebrate 'classical' cadherins, which mediate adhesion via trans homodimerization between their membrane-distal EC1 domains that extend from apposed cells, and assemble intercellular adherens junctions through cis clustering. To form mature trans adhesive dimers, cadherin domains from apposed cells dimerize in a 'strand-swapped' conformation. This occurs in a two-step binding process involving a fast-binding intermediate called the 'X-dimer'. Trans dimers are less flexible than cadherin monomers, a factor that drives junction assembly following cell cell contact by reducing the entropic cost associated with the formation of lateral cis oligomers. Cadherins outside the classical subfamily appear to have evolved distinct adhesive mechanisms that are only now beginning to be understood.
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