Description
Product Characteristics:
Nectins are immunoglobulin-like adhesion molecules that interact with afadin. Afadin is an actin filament-binding protein that connects nectins to the actin cytoskeleton. The nectin-afadin system organizes adherens junctions cooperatively with the cadherin-catenin system in epithelial cells.The nectin/PRR-family consists of four members, nectin-1, -2, -3 and -4. All the members of the nectin family have two or three slice variants. Nectin 3 is mainly expressed in testis and placental tissues and interacts in vivo with both long and short isoforms of afadin.
Subcellular location: Cell membrane
Synonyms: CD113, CDw113, DKFZP566B0846, FLJ90624, Nectin-3, Nectin3, Poliovirus receptor related 3, Poliovirus receptor related protein 3, Poliovirus receptor-related protein 3, PPR3, PRR3, PVRL 3, PVRL3, PVRL3_HUMAN, PVRR3.
Target Information: This gene encodes a member of the nectin family of proteins, which function as adhesion molecules at adherens junctions. This family member interacts with other nectin-like proteins and with afadin, a filamentous actin-binding protein involved in the regulation of directional motility, cell proliferation and survival. This gene plays a role in ocular development involving the ciliary body. Mutations in this gene are believed to result in congenital ocular defects. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants. [provided by RefSeq, Aug 2011]