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. 2016 Feb 16;4:9. doi: 10.3389/fcell.2016.00009

Table 1.

Examples of IgSF CAMs, which bind directly or indirectly via linker proteins to the cytoskeleton components.

Cell adhesion molecule Cytoskeleton component (Reference, if the interaction was directly demonstrated) Direct or proposed linker proteins (Reference where the interaction with the linker protein was shown)
NCAM Spectrin βI (Pollerberg et al., 1986; Leshchyns'ka et al., 2003) Direct
Tubulin (Buttner et al., 2003, 2005) Dynein (Perlson et al., 2013) Kinesin-1 (Wobst et al., 2015) MAP 1A (Buttner et al., 2003)
Actin α-actinin, tropomyosin (Buttner et al., 2003)
Fasciclin II Tubulin Ankyrin 2 (long isoform; Pielage et al., 2008)
apCAM Tubulin Not shown (Lee and Suter, 2008)
Actin Cortactin (Decourt et al., 2009)
L1 Spectrin Ankyrin B (Garver et al., 1997; Buhusi et al., 2008)
Actin Ezrin (Dickson et al., 2002)
Tubulin MAP2 (Poplawski et al., 2012)
Neuroglian Spectrin Ankyrin (Bouley et al., 2000; Enneking et al., 2013)
CHL1 βII spectrin (Tian et al., 2012) Direct and via ankyrin (Buhusi et al., 2003)
Actin Ezrin (Schlatter et al., 2008)
Neurofascin Spectrin Ankyrin G (Garver et al., 1997; Tuvia et al., 1997; Zhang et al., 1998)
Actin Ezrin (Gunn-Moore et al., 2006)
NrCAM Spectrin Ankyrin (Davis and Bennett, 1994)
ALCAM Actin Syntenin-1, ezrin (Tudor et al., 2014)
DsCAM Tubulin Tubulin folding cofactor D (Okumura et al., 2015)
nectin Actin Afadin (Takahashi et al., 1999)
SynCAM 1 Actin Farp1 (Cheadle and Biederer, 2012)
Spectrin Band 4.1-like protein 3, also called 4.1B (Yageta et al., 2002)

Homologues of mammalian NCAM and L1 and their interaction partners in Drosophila and Aplysia are indicated in dark and light gray, respectively.