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SUBMITTER: Donalies M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC52438 | biostudies-other | 1991 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Donalies M M Cramer M M Ringwald M M Starzinski-Powitz A A
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 19910901 18
Cadherins, a multigene family of transmembrane glycoproteins, mediate Ca(2+)-dependent intercellular adhesion. They are thought to be essential for the control of morphogenetic processes, including myogenesis. Here we report the identification and characterization of the cDNA of another member of the cadherin family, M-cadherin (M for muscle), from differentiating muscle cells. The longest open reading frame of the cDNAs isolated contains almost the entire coding region of the mature M-cadherin ...[more]