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Biological Factors > Antigens > Antigens, Surface > Cell Adhesion Molecules > Nectins
... > Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins > Proteins > Glycoproteins > Membrane Glycoproteins > Cell Adhesion Molecules > Nectins
... > Carbohydrates > Glycoconjugates > Glycoproteins > Membrane Glycoproteins > Cell Adhesion Molecules > Nectins
... > Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins > Proteins > Membrane Proteins > Membrane Glycoproteins > Cell Adhesion Molecules > Nectins

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Nectins  

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Entry terms

  • Nectin

Scope note

  • A family of calcium-independent cell adhesion molecules of the immunoglobulin superfamily. They are expressed by most cell types and mediate both homotypic and heterotypic cell-cell adhesion. Nectins function in a variety of morphogenetic and developmental processes that include organogenesis of the eye, ear, tooth, and cerebral cortex; they also play roles in viral infection and cell proliferation.

History note

  • 2018 (1999)

In other languages

  • nektiinit

    Finnish

  • Nektiner

    Swedish

  • CD111-antigen
  • CD112-antigen
  • CD113-antigen
  • Nektin-2
  • Nektin-3

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D000075983

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