Down syndrome cell adhesion molecule-like protein 1 (Down syndrome cell adhesion molecule 2, DSCAML1, DSCAM2, KIAA1132)

Function

• cell adhesion molecule
• mediates cation-independent homophilic binding
• nervous system development.

Compartment

membrane

Alternative splicing

named isoforms=2

Expression

• expressed in heart, liver, pancreas, skeletal muscle, kidney, brain
• in brain, expressed in amygdala, caudate nucleus, corpus callosum, hippocampus, substantia nigra, thalamus, subthalamus

More general terms

• adhesion receptor
• glycoprotein

Database

• UniProt: http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/Q8TD84.html