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SUBMITTER: Chattopadhyay N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2173722 | biostudies-literature | 2003 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chattopadhyay Nibedita N Wang Zemin Z Ashman Leonie K LK Brady-Kalnay Susann M SM Kreidberg Jordan A JA
The Journal of cell biology 20031201 6
The beta1 family of integrins has been primarily studied as a set of receptors for the extracellular matrix. In this paper, we define a novel role for alpha3beta1 integrin in association with the tetraspanin CD151 as a component of a cell-cell adhesion complex in epithelial cells that directly stimulates cadherin-mediated adhesion. The integrin-tetraspanin complex affects epithelial cell-cell adhesion at the level of gene expression both by regulating expression of PTPmu and by organizing a mult ...[more]