The Cadherin Superfamily

Part I. Overview

1. Introduction
Shintaro T. Suzuki, Shinji Hirano

2. Evolution of Cadherins and Associated Catenins
Paco Hulpiau, Ismail Sahin Gul, Frans Roy

Part II. Classical Cadherins

3. Classical Cadherins
Barry M. Gumbiner

4. Structure and Function of Cadherin Extracellular Regions
Lawrence Shapiro

5. Regulation of Cadherin–Catenin Biology by Mechanical Force and Phosphorylation
Jiongyi Tan, Blair W. Benham-Pyle, William I. Weis, W. James Nelson

6. Cooperative Roles of Nectins with Cadherins in Physiological and Pathological Processes
Takeshi Fujiwara, Akira Mizoguchi, Yoshimi Takai

Part III. Atypical Cadherins

7. Desmosomal Cadherins
Martyn Chidgey, David Garrod

8. Clustered Protocadherins
Kar Men Mah, Joshua A. Weiner

9. The Nonclustered Protocadherins
James D. Jontes

10. Seven-Pass Transmembrane Cadherin CELSRs, and Fat4 and Dchs1 Cadherins: From Planar Cell Polarity to Three-Dimensional Organ Architecture
Dongbo Shi, Masaki Arata, Tadao Usui, Toshihiko Fujimori, Tadashi Uemura

11. Various Atypical Cadherins: T-Cadherin, RET, Calsyntenin, and 7D-Cadherin
Keiko Imai-Okano, Shinji Hirano

Part IV. Cadherins in Tissues and Diseases

12. Cadherins in Neural Development
Lewis L. Brayshaw, Stephen R. Price

13. Cadherins in the Auditory Sensory Organ
Aziz El-Amraoui, Christine Petit

14. Cadherins in Cancer
Lauren V. Albrecht, Kathleen J. Green, Adi D. Dubash

15. Cadherin-Related Diseases
Shinji Hirano, Keiko Imai-Okano

Keywords: Life Sciences, Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, Human Physiology, Animal Biochemistry, Neurosciences, Cancer Research