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Nonchordate classic cadherins have a structurally and functionally unique domain that is absent from chordate classic cadherins.
Developmental biology - 1 Dec 1999
Oda H, Tsukita S
Abstract excerpt
Classic cadherins, which are adhesion molecules in cell-cell adherens junctions, have a large contribution to the construction of the animal body. Their molecular structures show clear differences between chordate and nonchordate metazoans. Although nonchordate classic cadherins have cadherin superfamily-specific extracellular repeats (CRs) and a highly conserved cytoplasmic domain (CP), these cadherins have a...
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