cadherin

Function

• Ca+2-dependent cell adhesion proteins
• control of adhesion specificities through homophilic binding interactions
• thus, cadherins bind to themselves as receptor & ligand
• role in sorting of heterogeneous cell types
• cadherin/catenin complexes associate with the cytoskeleton & src family of tyrosine kinases

More general terms

• adhesion receptor
• Ca+2 binding protein
• glycoprotein

More specific terms

• cadherin-2; neural cadherin; N-cadherin; CDw325; CD325 (CDH2, CDHN, NCAD)
• cadherin-3; placental cadherin; P-cadherin (CDH3, CDHP)
• cadherin-4; retinal cadherin; R-cadherin; R-CAD (CDH4)
• cadherin-5 (CD144, vascular endothelial cadherin, VE-cadherin, 74B antigen, CDH5)
• cadherin-6 (kidney cadherin, K-cadherin, CDH6)
• cadherin-7 (CDH7, CDH7L1)
• cadherin-8
• cadherin-9 (CDH9)
• cadherin-10; T2-cadherin (CDH10)
• cadherin-11; osteoblast cadherin; OB-cadherin; OSF-4 (CDH11)
• cadherin-12; brain cadherin; BR-cadherin; neural type cadherin 2; N-cadherin 2 (CDH12)
• cadherin-13; Truncated cadherin; T-cadherin; T-cad; heart cadherin; H-cadherin; P105 (CDH13, CDHH)
• cadherin-15; muscle cadherin; M-cadherin; cadherin-14 (CDH15 CDH14 CDH3)
• cadherin-16; kidney-specific cadherin; Ksp-cadherin (CDH16)
• cadherin-17; liver-intestine cadherin; LI-cadherin; intestinal peptide-associated transporter HPT-1 (CDH17)
• cadherin-18; cadherin-14 (CDH18, CDH14)
• cadherin-19 (CDH19 CDH7L2 UNQ478/PRO941)
• cadherin-20 (CDH20, CDH7L3)
• cadherin-22; pituitary & brain cadherin; PB-cadherin (CDH22, C20orf25)
• cadherin-23; otocadherin (CDH23, KIAA1774, KIAA1812, UNQ1894/PRO4340)
• cadherin-24 (CDH24, CDH11L, UNQ2834/PRO34009)
• cadherin-like protein 26; cadherin-like protein VR20 (CDH26)
• Cadherin-like protein 28 (CDH28, CDHR3)
• cadherin-like protein UNQ9392/PRO34300 (CDHR4)
• CD324; E-cadherin; cadherin-1; epithelial cadherin; uvomorulin; CAM 120/80 (CDH1, CDHE, UVO)

Additional terms

• catenin
• protocadherin (PCDH)
• protocadherin fat 1; cadherin-related tumor suppressor homolog; protein fat homolog; cadherin family member 7 (FAT1, CDHF7, FAT)
• protocadherin fat 2; hfat2; multiple epidermal growth factor-like domains protein 1; multiple EGF-like domains protein 1; cadherin family member 8 (FAT2, CDHF8, KIAA0811, MEGF1)