Calcium-dependent cell adhesion protein; preferentially mediates homotypic cell-cell adhesion by dimerization with a CDH2 chain from another cell. Cadherins may thus contribute to the sorting of heterogeneous cell types. Acts as a regulator of neural stem cells quiescence by mediating anchorage of neural stem cells to ependymocytes in the adult subependymal zone: upon cleavage by MMP24, CDH2-mediated anchorage is affected, leading to modulate neural stem cell quiescence. Plays a role in cell-to-cell junction formation between pancreatic beta cells and neural crest stem (NCS) cells, promoting the formation of processes by NCS cells. CDH2 may be involved in neuronal recognition mechanism. In hippocampal neurons, may regulate dendritic spine density.
Gene References into Functions
The FGFR4-388arg variant promotes lung cancer progression by N-cadherin induction.PMID:29402970
regulation of vesicle endocytosis was mediated at the molecular level by N-cadherin in a release activity-dependent manner. Because of its endocytosis enhancing function, N-cadherin might play an important role in the coupling of vesicle exo- and endocytosis.PMID:28106089
Results indicate that embryos that express N-cad show altered BMP activity, resulting in an atrophied epiblast, inappropriate loss of cells into the amniotic cavity and inefficient patterning of the extraembryonic mesoderm.PMID:27217206
The authors propose that AmotL1 is an essential effector of the N-cadherin mediated endothelial/pericyte junctional complex.PMID:27464479
N-cadherin has different effects on osteolineage cells depending upon their differentiation stage.PMID:28240364
Migration of bone marrow-mesenchymal stem cells in response to TGF-beta was mediated through N-cadherin and noncanonical TGF-beta signals.PMID:28213973
The dependence of migration of the fiber cell apical domains along the Epithelial Fiber Interface for lens morphogenesis on N-cadherin provides new insight into the process of tissue development.PMID:28552735
in chicken and mouse embryos, PAPC expression is tightly regulated by the clock and wavefront system in the posterior PSM and exhibits a striking complementary pattern to N-cadherinPMID:28087631
Loss of N-cadherin in the context of oncogenic K-ras leads to increased pancreatic intraepithelial neoplasia (PanIN) incidence and progression.PMID:26477318
Type I collagen was highly expressed in the spinal cord during the scar-forming phase and induced astrocytic scar formation via the integrin-N-cadherin pathway.PMID:28628111
N-cadherin-null enteric neural crest cells do not respond to C3a co-attraction. C3a regulates cell migration in a N-cadherin-dependent process.PMID:27041467
Knock-down of ZBED6 in insulin-producing cells promotes N-cadherin junctions between beta-cells and neural crest stem cells in vitro.PMID:26750727
Knockdown of N-cadherin in 3T3 fibroblasts did not impede gap closure in a soft tissue wound healing model.PMID:26980715
Specific deletion of Cdh2 in Sertoli cells leads to altered meiotic progression and subfertility of mice.PMID:25631347
CRP suppresses expression of N-cadherin (p < 0.01), a mesenchymal marker of EMT, and ZEB-1, an EMT-related transcription factor (p < 0.01). These findings suggest that CRP inhibits EMT in a MCA-38 tumor-bearing mouse model.PMID:25864110
these studies suggest that N-cadherin may represent a viable therapeutic target to prevent the dissemination of MM PCs and delay MM disease progression.PMID:26194766
N-cadherin is required for the establishment and maintenance of anterior heart field -cardiac progenitor cells.PMID:25367124
delta-Catenin Regulates Spine Architecture via Cadherin and PDZ-dependent Interactions.PMID:25724647
N-cadherin is not essential for healthy enamel development and does not significantly affect the mineralization process.PMID:25014356
Fbxo45 binds to N-cadherin intracellularly and prevents its degradation thereby playing a key role in promoting N-cadherin-mediated neuronal differentiation.PMID:25143387
Microtubules are directed towards N-cadherin-mediated contacts by their plus ends and are involved in a negative-feedback loop with the formation of cell-cell contacts in myogenic cells.PMID:24522194
NELL2 plays an important role in the regulation of neuronal differentiation via control of N-cadherin expression and cell aggregation.PMID:24465772
This study showed that the adherens junction proteins afadin and CDH2 are critical for the control of cell proliferation in the dorsal telencephalon and for the formation of its normal laminar structure. Inactivation.PMID:25100583
activation of calpains disassembles cell-cell adhesion at intercalated discs by degrading N-cadherin and thereby promotes left ventricular remodeling after myocardial infarction.PMID:24891510
This study provides evidence that co-application of GDNF and estradiol exert important protective effects on dopaminergic neurons by increasing the interaction between ERalpha and N-cadherin.PMID:24254198
In senescent osteopenic mice, blocking the CADH2-Wnt interaction using an antagonist peptide increased Wnt5a and Wnt10b expression, bone formation, and bone mass.PMID:24664975
These findings suggest N-cadherin/FGFR has a pivotal role in promoting metastasis through differential regulation of ERK and AKT, and underscore the potential for targeting the FGFR in advanced ErbB2-amplified breast tumors.PMID:23975425
N-cadherin regulates osteogenesis and migration of bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells.PMID:23187741
N-cadherin regulates beta-catenin signaling through both Wnt and AKT.PMID:23618343
Peptide-mediated disruption of N-cadherin-LRP5/6 interaction increases Wnt/beta-catenin signaling and osteoblast function in vitro and promotes calvaria bone formation in vivo.PMID:22576936
Stability studies of extracellular domain two of neural-cadherin.PMID:21843662
Lowering N-cadherin expression in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma improves survival.PMID:22158044
a role for N-cadherin in the formation of fibrosis and cysts in the mammary glandPMID:22030022
The integration of three different classes of cytoskeletal systems found in the synaptic N-cadherin complex may imply a dynamic switching of adhesive scaffolds in response to synaptic activityPMID:22609377
Galectin-3 protein regulates mobility of N-cadherin and GM1 ganglioside at cell-cell junctions of mammary carcinoma cells.PMID:22846995
The slow disassembly kinetics in the apo-state in wild-type N-cadherin does not originate from the differences in the X-interface residues.PMID:22544613
N-cadherin expression was efficiently ablated in osteoblast lineage cells. Basal hematopoiesis, HSC number, cell cycle status, long-term repopulating activity, and self-renewal capacity were normal.PMID:22323481
Targeted deletion of N-cadherin resulted in an age-dependent bone phenotype, characterized by decreased mineralized bone, but no difference in steady-state HSC numbers or function at any time tested, and normal recovery from myeloablative injury.PMID:22596259
observed reduced N-cadherin expression in RB1(-/-) calvarial osteoblastsPMID:22547682
Smad2/3 signaling in ECs is indispensable for maintenance of vascular integrity via the fine-tuning of N-cadherin, VE-cadherin, and S1PR1 expressions in the vasculature.PMID:22498737
The Nox1 NADPH oxidase signals through EGFR to activate MMP-9 and promote the shedding of N-cadherin, thereby contributing to smooth muscle cell migration.PMID:22102727
Cadherin Cdh2 (Ncad) and the calcium receptor Casr show higher gene expression and variability only in etal bone marrow at 17.5 days post coitum (dpc).PMID:22276210
The data showed that N-cadherin is not essential for enteric nervous system development but it does modulate the modes of enteric neural crest cell migration and acts in concert with beta1-integrin to control the development of the enteric nervous system.PMID:22342243
We conclude that VE and N-cadherin have both additive and divergent effects on Endothelial cells (ECs).PMID:22246030
Data show that N-cadherin mediated junctions between osteoblasts are needed for osteoblast gene transcription, and mediate osteogenesis through PI3K signaling.PMID:21964322
these data provide evidence that Shroom3 and N-cadherin function cooperatively downstream of Pitx2 to directly regulate cell shape changes necessary for early gut tube morphogenesis.PMID:21726547
The structural integrity of the myocardial cell wall was compromised in the N-cadherin mutant embryos, leading to a malformed heart and a delay in embryonic development.PMID:21680756
Data show that Rap1 regulated the plasma membrane localization of NCad and NCad rescued radial polarization when Rap1 was inhibited.PMID:21516100
cortactin was required for N-cadherin-mediated enhancement of Kv1.5 channel activityPMID:21507952
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Cell membrane; Single-pass type I membrane protein. Cell membrane, sarcolemma. Cell junction. Cell surface.