Meta-Biol

• Pathways

Based on surface plasmon resonance experiments, CDH11 forms a specificity subgroup with CDH8 and, probably, CDH24. CDH11 forms homotypic trans dimers (Patel et al. 2006, Brasch et al. 2018), and heterotypic trans dimers with CDH8 (Brasch et al. 2018) and, based on sequence similarity, probably with CDH24 (Brasch et al. 2018).

Cell junction organization in Reactome currently covers aspects of cell-cell junction organization, cell-extracellular matrix interactions, and Type I hemidesmosome assembly.

Cell-to-Cell communication is crucial for multicellular organisms because it allows organisms to coordinate the activity of their cells. Some cell-to-cell communication requires direct cell-cell contacts mediated by receptors on their cell surfaces. Members of the immunoglobulin superfamily (IgSF) proteins are some of the cell surface receptors involved in cell-cell recognition, communication and many aspects of the axon guidance and synapse formation-the crucial processes during embryonal development (Rougon & Hobert 2003).

Processes annotated here as aspects of cell junction organization mediate the formation and maintenance of adherens junctions, tight junctions, and gap junctions, as well as aspects of cellular interactions with extracellular matrix and hemidesmosome assembly. Nephrin protein family interactions are central to the formation of the slit diaphragm, a modified adherens junction. Interactions among members of the signal regulatory protein family are important for the regulation of migration and phagocytosis by myeloid cells.