| Modification Notes |
The cadherins are a family of Ca2+-dependent adhesion molecules that function to mediate cell-cell binding critical to the maintenance of structure and morphogenesis. Cadherins each contain a large extracellular domain at the N-terminus, which is characterized by a series of five homologous repeats, the most distal of which is thought to be responsible for binding specificity. Cadherin-19, also known as CDH19, CDH7 or CDH7L2, is a 772 amino acid single-pass type I membrane protein that contains five cadherin domains. Expressed in a variety of tissues, cadherin-19 functions as a Ca2+-dependent cell-cell adhesion glycoprotein that is thought to be involved in the sorting of heterogeneous cell types. The gene encoding cadherin-19 maps to a cadherin cluster on human chromosome 18, a chromosome which houses over 300 protein-coding genes and contains nearly 76 million bases. |