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Epidermal growth factor-like repeats mediate lateral and reciprocal interactions of Ep-CAM molecules in homophilic adhesions.
Molecular and cellular biology - 1 Apr 2001
Balzar M, Briaire-de Bruijn I H, Rees-Bakker H A, Prins F A, Helfrich W, de Leij L, Riethmüller G, Alberti S, Warnaar S O, Fleuren G J, Litvinov S V
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Ep-CAM is a new type of cell adhesion molecule (CAM) which does not structurally resemble the members of the four major families (cadherins, integrins, selectins, and CAMs of the immunoglobulin superfamily) and mediates Ca(2+)-independent, homophilic adhesions. The extracellular domain of Ep-CAM...
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