Two cell adhesion molecules, nectin and cadherin, interact through their cytoplasmic domain-associated proteins.

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Published in J Cell Biol on September 04, 2000

Authors

K Tachibana1, H Nakanishi, K Mandai, K Ozaki, W Ikeda, Y Yamamoto, A Nagafuchi, S Tsukita, Y Takai

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1: Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine/Faculty of Medicine, Suita 565-0871, Japan.

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