CSB331H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cadherin, Cell Adhesion, Intermediate Filament

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We are starting today from a simple level and looking at the cell-cell adhesion. With respect to the starts of cell-cell adhesion and transmembrane proteins that are ca dependent and called cadherin. Think that they decided to get together and form a multicellular organism. How do they recognize each other and bind to each other. When you think about the evolution of orgnaisms that all create receptors that selectively binds to each other, you are still gping to end up with a blob of cell. So the coincidence of the adhesion moeldules is the extracellular matrix moelcules that gives your body shape. There is no such thing in the body that has a single biological function. Most of them have a context dependent activity. If you think about the cadherence it helps binds a population of cells. Cadherence in addition to binding cells together communicate with the actin cytoskeleton and affects the actin dynamics.

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