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cadherin-12; brain cadherin; BR-cadherin; neural type cadherin 2; N-cadherin 2 (CDH12)

Function: cadherin (see cadherin) Structure: contains 5 cadherin domains Compartment: cell membrane Expression: brain Genetics: - there may be two cadherin genes: - one at 5p13-14 (N-cadherin 2) & the other on chromosome 18

General

cadherin glycoprotein phosphoprotein

Properties

SIZE: entity length = 794 aa MW = 88 kD COMPARTMENT: cellular membrane MOTIF: signal sequence {1-23} cadherin domain {55-160} cadherin domain {161-269} MOTIF: N-glycosylation site {N256} cadherin domain {270-384} MOTIF: Ser phosphorylation site {S286} cadherin domain {385-487} MOTIF: N-glycosylation site {N456} cadherin domain {488-609} MOTIF: N-glycosylation site {N537} N-glycosylation site {N545} transmembrane domain {610-637}

Database Correlations

OMIM 600562 UniProt P55289 PFAM correlations Entrez Gene 1010 Kegg hsa:1010

References

  1. UniProt :accession P55289
  2. Takeichi M. Cadherin cell adhesion receptors as a morphogenetic regulator. Science. 1991 Mar 22;251(5000):1451-5. Review. PMID: 2006419
  3. Walsh FS et al N-cadherin gene maps to human chromosome 18 and is not linked to the E-cadherin gene. J Neurochem. 1990 Sep;55(3):805-12. PMID: 2384753
  4. Entrez Gene :accession 1010