Growth factors and EGFs are synthesized as TM proteins, regulated cleavage of the precursor by members of the ADAM protease releases the active molecule into the extracellular space.

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Cell-adhesion molecules (CAMs) mediate direct cell-cell adhesions.

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Adhesion receptors mediate cell-matrix adhesions

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Homophilic Binding 

A CAM on one cell can directly bind to the same kind of CAM on an adjacent cell

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Heterophilic Binding

A CAM on one cell can directly bind to a different class of CAM on an adjacent cell

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The formation of many cell-cell adhesions entails two types of molecular interactions:

1.Trans binding interactions 

2. Cis binding interactions