Menu
Home Explore People Places Arts History Plants & Animals Science Life & Culture Technology
On this page
CDH6
Protein-coding gene in the species Homo sapiens

Cadherin-6 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the CDH6 gene.

This gene encodes a type II classical cadherin from the cadherin superfamily. The encoded membrane protein is a calcium dependent cell–cell adhesion glycoprotein composed of five extracellular cadherin repeats, a transmembrane region and a highly conserved cytoplasmic tail. Cadherins mediate cell–cell binding in a homophilic manner, contributing to the sorting of heterogeneous cell types and the maintenance of orderly structures such as epithelium. Strong transcriptional expression of this gene has been observed in hepatocellular and renal carcinoma cell lines, suggesting a possible role in metastasis and invasion.

Related Image Collections Add Image
We don't have any YouTube videos related to CDH6 yet.
We don't have any PDF documents related to CDH6 yet.
We don't have any Books related to CDH6 yet.
We don't have any archived web articles related to CDH6 yet.

Further reading

References

  1. Shimoyama Y, Gotoh M, Terasaki T, Kitajima M, Hirohashi S (June 1995). "Isolation and sequence analysis of human cadherin-6 complementary DNA for the full coding sequence and its expression in human carcinoma cells". Cancer Res. 55 (10): 2206–11. PMID 7743525. /wiki/PMID_(identifier)

  2. Chalmers IJ, Hofler H, Atkinson MJ (June 1999). "Mapping of a cadherin gene cluster to a region of chromosome 5 subject to frequent allelic loss in carcinoma". Genomics. 57 (1): 160–3. doi:10.1006/geno.1998.5717. PMID 10191097. /wiki/Doi_(identifier)

  3. "Entrez Gene: CDH6 cadherin 6, type 2, K-cadherin (fetal kidney)". https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=gene&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=1004

  4. "Entrez Gene: CDH6 cadherin 6, type 2, K-cadherin (fetal kidney)". https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=gene&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=1004