CAM
See
alternative medicine, cell adhesion molecule, chorioallantoic membrane
Facts
- Cell Adhesion Molecules (CAM) are proteins located on the cell surface involved with the binding with other cells or with the extracellular matrix (ECM) in the process called cell adhesion.
- Most of the CAMs belong to 5 protein families: Ig (immunoglobulin) superfamily (IgSF CAMs), the integrins, the cadherins, the selectins and the lymphocyte homing receptors.
- Immunoglobulin superfamily CAMs (IgSF CAMs) are either homophilic or heterophilic and bind integrins or different IgSF CAMs.
