Focal adhesion

Function- Shape, signaling, force transmission, cell movement

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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

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Trans interactions (intercellular or adhesive interactions)

CAMs on one cell bind to CAMs on an adjacent cell.