Sorting out a promiscuous superfamily: Towards cadherin connectomics

Trends in Cell Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 524-536

  Sotomayor, Marcos ^a   Gaudet, Rachelle ^b   Corey, David P ^c,d  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Adhesion; Brain development; Cancer; Hearing; Mechanotransduction; Neuronal connectivity

Indexed keywords

CADHERIN; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL ADHESION; CLASSIFICATION; CONNECTOME; CYTOPLASM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; ANIMAL; BRAIN; CELL COMMUNICATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEARING; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; NERVE CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CADHERINS; CELL ADHESION; CELL COMMUNICATION; CONNECTOME; HEARING; MORPHOGENESIS; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; NEURONS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84906937488     PISSN: 09628924     EISSN: 18793088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tcb.2014.03.007     Document Type: Review

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