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Family: Cadherin (PF00028)

Summary: Cadherin domain

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Cadherins are a class of proteins which are expressed on the surface of cells. They play important roles in cell_adhesion whereby they ensure cells within tissues are bound together. They are dependant on calcium (Ca2+) ions to function, hence their name.

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InterPro entry IPR002126

Cadherins are a group of transmembrane proteins that serve as the major adhesion molecules located within adherens junctions. They can regulate cell-cell adhesion through their extracellular domain and their cytosolic domains connect to the actin cytoskeleton by binding to catenins [ PUBMED:25014356 ]. These proteins preferentially interact with themselves in a homophilic manner in connecting cells; thus acting as both receptor and ligand. They may play an important role in the sorting of different cell types during morphogenesis, histogenesis and regeneration. They may also be involved in the regulation of tight and gap junctions, and in the control of intercellular spacing. Cadherins are evolutionary related to the desmogleins which are component of intercellular desmosome junctions involved in the interaction of plaque proteins.

Structurally, cadherins comprise a number of domains: classically, these include a signal sequence; a propeptide of around 130 residues; a single transmembrane domain and five tandemly repeated extracellular cadherin domains, 4 of which are cadherin repeats, and the fifth contains 4 conserved cysteines and a C-terminal cytoplasmic domain [ PUBMED:11736639 ]. However, proteins are designated as members of the broadly defined cadherin family if they have one or more cadherin repeats. A cadherin repeat is an independently folding sequence of approximately 110 amino acids that contains motifs with the conserved sequences DRE, DXNDNAPXF, and DXD. Crystal structures have revealed that multiple cadherin domains form Ca2+-dependent rod-like structures with a conserved Ca2+-binding pocket at the domain-domain interface. Cadherins depend on calcium for their function: calcium ions bind to specific residues in each cadherin repeat to ensure its proper folding, to confer rigidity upon the extracellular domain and is essential for cadherin adhesive function and for protection against protease digestion.

This entry represents the extracellular repeated domains found in cadherins and related proteins.

Gene Ontology

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Domain organisation

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Pfam Clan

This family is a member of clan E-set (CL0159), which has the following description:

This clan includes a diverse range of domains that have an Ig-like fold and appear to be distantly related to each other. The clan includes: PKD domains, cadherins and several families of bacterial Ig-like domains as well as viral tail fibre proteins. it also includes several Fibronectin type III domain-containing families.

The clan contains the following 257 members:

A2M A2M_BRD A2M_recep AA9 Adeno_GP19K AlcCBM31 Alpha-amylase_N Alpha_adaptinC2 Alpha_E2_glycop Anth_Ig aRib Arylsulfotran_N ASF1_hist_chap ATG19 BACON BACON_2 BatD BIg21 Big_1 Big_10 Big_11 Big_12 Big_13 Big_14 Big_15 Big_2 Big_3 Big_3_2 Big_3_3 Big_3_4 Big_3_5 Big_4 Big_5 Big_6 Big_7 Big_8 Big_9 Bile_Hydr_Trans BiPBP_C bMG1 bMG10 bMG3 bMG5 bMG6 BslA BsuPI Cadherin Cadherin-like Cadherin_2 Cadherin_3 Cadherin_4 Cadherin_5 Cadherin_pro CagX Calx-beta Candida_ALS_N CARDB CBM39 CBM_X2 CD45 CelD_N Ceramidse_alk_C CHB_HEX_C CHB_HEX_C_1 ChitinaseA_N ChiW_Ig_like Chlam_OMP6 CHU_C Coatamer_beta_C COP-gamma_platf CopC CshA_repeat Cyc-maltodext_N Cytomega_US3 DBB DsbC DUF11 DUF1410 DUF1425 DUF2271 DUF3244 DUF3458 DUF3501 DUF3823_C DUF3859 DUF4165 DUF4179 DUF4426 DUF4469 DUF4625 DUF4784_N DUF4879 DUF4959 DUF4982 DUF4998 DUF5001 DUF5008 DUF5011 DUF5060 DUF5065 DUF5103 DUF5115 DUF525 DUF5643 DUF6383 DUF6595 DUF916 EB_dh ECD Enterochelin_N EpoR_lig-bind ERAP1_C EstA_Ig_like Expansin_C Filamin FixG_C Flavi_glycop_C FlgD_ig fn3 Fn3-like fn3_2 fn3_4 fn3_5 fn3_6 FN3_7 Fn3_assoc fn3_PAP GBS_Bsp-like GlgE_dom_N_S Glucodextran_B Glyco_hydro2_C5 Glyco_hydro_2 Gmad2 GMP_PDE_delta GO-like_E_set GspA_SrpA_N Hanta_G1 He_PIG HECW_N HemeBinding_Shp Hemocyanin_C Herpes_BLLF1 HYR IalB IFNGR1 Ig_GlcNase Ig_mannosidase IL12p40_C Il13Ra_Ig IL17R_fnIII_D1 IL17R_fnIII_D2 IL2RB_N1 IL3Ra_N IL4Ra_N IL6Ra-bind Inhibitor_I42 Inhibitor_I71 InlK_D3 Integrin_alpha2 Interfer-bind Invasin_D3 IRK_C IrmA Iron_transport Kre9_KNH LacZ_4 LEA_2 Lep_receptor_Ig LIFR_D2 LIFR_N Lipase_bact_N LodA_N LPMO_10 LRR_adjacent LTD MALT1_Ig Mannosidase_ig MetallophosC MG1 MG2 MG3 MG4 Mo-co_dimer N_BRCA1_IG Na_K-ATPase NAR2 NDNF NDNF_C NEAT Neocarzinostat Neurexophilin NPCBM_assoc Omp28 PapD_C PBP-Tp47_c Peptidase_C25_C Phlebo_G2_C PhoD_N PKD PKD_2 PKD_3 PKD_4 PKD_5 PKD_6 Por_Secre_tail Pox_vIL-18BP Psg1 PTP_tm Pullulanase_N2 Pur_ac_phosph_N Qn_am_d_aIII Qn_am_d_aIV RabGGT_insert Reeler REJ RET_CLD1 RET_CLD3 RET_CLD4 RGI_lyase RHD_dimer Rho_GDI Rib RibLong SCAB-Ig SKICH SLAM SoxZ SprB SusE SVA SWM_repeat T2SS-T3SS_pil_N Tafi-CsgC TarS_C1 TcA_RBD TcfC TIG TIG_2 TIG_plexin TIG_SUH Tissue_fac Top6b_C TPPII TQ Transglut_C Transglut_N TRAP_beta TraQ_transposon UL16 Velvet WIF Wzt_C Y_Y_Y YBD YscW ZirS_C Zona_pellucida

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(34606)
RP35
(87224)
RP55
(209664)
RP75
(284697)
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Curation and family details

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Seed source: Swissprot_feature_table
Previous IDs: cadherin;
Type: Domain
Sequence Ontology: SO:0000417
Author: Sonnhammer ELL
Number in seed: 55
Number in full: 278836
Average length of the domain: 93.1 aa
Average identity of full alignment: 25 %
Average coverage of the sequence by the domain: 45.26 %

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build method: hmmbuild -o /dev/null HMM SEED
search method: hmmsearch -Z 61295632 -E 1000 --cpu 4 HMM pfamseq
Model details:
Parameter Sequence Domain
Gathering cut-off 28.8 28.8
Trusted cut-off 28.8 28.8
Noise cut-off 28.7 28.7
Model length: 93
Family (HMM) version: 20
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Structures

For those sequences which have a structure in the Protein DataBank, we use the mapping between UniProt, PDB and Pfam coordinate systems from the PDBe group, to allow us to map Pfam domains onto UniProt sequences and three-dimensional protein structures. The table below shows the structures on which the Cadherin domain has been found. There are 786 instances of this domain found in the PDB. Note that there may be multiple copies of the domain in a single PDB structure, since many structures contain multiple copies of the same protein sequence.

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AlphaFold Structure Predictions

The list of proteins below match this family and have AlphaFold predicted structures. Click on the protein accession to view the predicted structure.

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A0A044QPD8 View 3D Structure Click here
A0A044R3S2 View 3D Structure Click here
A0A044T9V2 View 3D Structure Click here
A0A044TWN8 View 3D Structure Click here
A0A077YVM5 View 3D Structure Click here
A0A077Z125 View 3D Structure Click here
A0A077Z3R5 View 3D Structure Click here
A0A077Z8V8 View 3D Structure Click here
A0A077ZA60 View 3D Structure Click here
A0A077ZLW8 View 3D Structure Click here
A0A0A6YY83 View 3D Structure Click here
A0A0B4LHM7 View 3D Structure Click here
A0A0G2K294 View 3D Structure Click here
A0A0G2K6T9 View 3D Structure Click here
A0A0G2K7Z8 View 3D Structure Click here
A0A0G2K8I5 View 3D Structure Click here
A0A0G2K9D7 View 3D Structure Click here
A0A0G2KA90 View 3D Structure Click here
A0A0G2KGN6 View 3D Structure Click here
A0A0G2L110 View 3D Structure Click here
A0A0G2L2D6 View 3D Structure Click here
A0A0G2L2S7 View 3D Structure Click here
A0A0G2L4D7 View 3D Structure Click here
A0A0G2L924 View 3D Structure Click here
A0A0H2UKU4 View 3D Structure Click here
A0A0J9YJK6 View 3D Structure Click here
A0A0K0E2B5 View 3D Structure Click here
A0A0K0E3F9 View 3D Structure Click here
A0A0K0E3G1 View 3D Structure Click here
A0A0K0E583 View 3D Structure Click here
A0A0K0EAU8 View 3D Structure Click here
A0A0K0EF35 View 3D Structure Click here
A0A0K0EFR3 View 3D Structure Click here
A0A0K0EIN9 View 3D Structure Click here
A0A0K0ESY8 View 3D Structure Click here
A0A0N4SU21 View 3D Structure Click here
A0A0N4SUB1 View 3D Structure Click here
A0A0N4SUG2 View 3D Structure Click here
A0A0N4U2H5 View 3D Structure Click here
A0A0N4U583 View 3D Structure Click here