Mechanism of homophilic cadherin adhesion

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 587-592

  Leckband, Deborah ^a   Sivasankar, Sanjeevi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADHERIN; CALCIUM;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; BINDING SITE; CELL ADHESION; CHEMICAL BOND; DIMERIZATION; FORCE TRANSDUCER; MEMBRANE BINDING; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0033822499     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0955-0674(00)00136-8     Document Type: Review

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