Publication Date:
1995-01-20
Description:
Cadherins are calcium-dependent cell adhesion molecules containing extracellular repeats of approximately 110 amino acids. The three-dimensional structure of the amino-terminal repeat of mouse epithelial cadherin was determined by multidimensional heteronuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. The calcium ion was bound by a short alpha helix and by loops at one end of the seven-stranded beta-barrel structure. An exposed concave face is in a position to provide homophilic binding specificity and was also sensitive to calcium ligation. Unexpected structural similarities with the immunoglobulin fold suggest an evolutionary relation between calcium-dependent and calcium-independent cell adhesion molecules.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Overduin, M -- Harvey, T S -- Bagby, S -- Tong, K I -- Yau, P -- Takeichi, M -- Ikura, M -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1995 Jan 20;267(5196):386-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Division of Molecular and Structural Biology, Ontario Cancer Institute, Toronto, Canada.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7824937" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Amino Acid Sequence
;
Animals
;
Antigens, CD2/chemistry
;
Binding Sites
;
Cadherins/*chemistry/metabolism/physiology
;
Calcium/*metabolism
;
*Cell Adhesion
;
Hydrogen Bonding
;
Immunoglobulins/chemistry
;
Mice
;
Models, Molecular
;
Molecular Sequence Data
;
Protein Conformation
;
Protein Folding
;
Protein Structure, Secondary
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
,
Chemistry and Pharmacology
,
Computer Science
,
Medicine
,
Natural Sciences in General
,
Physics
