CEACAM6
Carcinoembryonic antigen-related cell adhesion molecule 6 (non-specific cross reacting antigen) (CEACAM6) also known as CD66c (Cluster of Differentiation 66c), is a member of the carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) gene family..[1]
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Further reading
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- Haus O, Noworolska A, Laskowski M, et al. (1990). “Prognostic significance of secondary cytogenetic changes and nonspecific cross-reacting antigen (NCA) in patients with Ph-positive chronic myeloid leukemia”. Exp. Mol. Pathol. 52 (2): 235–42. doi:10.1016/0014-4800(90)90008-2. PMID 2332039.
- Hefta SA, Paxton RJ, Shively JE (1990). “Sequence and glycosylation site identity of two distinct glycoforms of nonspecific cross-reacting antigen as demonstrated by sequence analysis and fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry”. J. Biol. Chem. 265 (15): 8618–26. PMID 2341397.
- Inazawa J, Abe T, Inoue K, et al. (1990). “Regional assignment of nonspecific cross-reacting antigen (NCA) of the CEA gene family to chromosome 19 at band q13.2”. Cytogenet. Cell Genet. 52 (1–2): 28–31. doi:10.1159/000132833. PMID 2612212.
- Neumaier M, Zimmermann W, Shively L, et al. (1988). “Characterization of a cDNA clone for the nonspecific cross-reacting antigen (NCA) and a comparison of NCA and carcinoembryonic antigen”. J. Biol. Chem. 263 (7): 3202–7. PMID 2830274.
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- Barnett T, Goebel SJ, Nothdurft MA, Elting JJ (1989). “Carcinoembryonic antigen family: characterization of cDNAs coding for NCA and CEA and suggestion of nonrandom sequence variation in their conserved loop-domains”. Genomics. 3 (1): 59–66. doi:10.1016/0888-7543(88)90160-7. PMID 3220478.
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- Noworolska A, Harłozińska-Szmyrka A, Richter R (1986). “Distribution of surface nonspecific cross-reacting antigen and influence of proteolytic enzymes on this antigen in myeloid cell series”. Cancer Detect. Prev. 9 (3–4): 365–71. PMID 3527416.
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- Watt SM, Fawcett J, Murdoch SJ, et al. (1994). “CD66 identifies the biliary glycoprotein (BGP) adhesion molecule: cloning, expression, and adhesion functions of the BGPc splice variant”. Blood. 84 (1): 200–10. PMID 8018919.
- Honda Y, Egawa K, Kuroki M, Ono T (1997). “Hair cycle-dependent expression of a nonspecific cross reacting antigen (NCA)-50/90-like molecule on follicular keratinocytes”. Arch. Dermatol. Res. 289 (8): 457–65. doi:10.1007/s004030050221. PMID 9266023.
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- Oikawa S, Sugiyama M, Kuroki M, et al. (2001). “Extracellular N-domain alone can mediate specific heterophilic adhesion between members of the carcinoembryonic antigen family, CEACAM6 and CEACAM8”. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 278 (3): 564–8. doi:10.1006/bbrc.2000.3858. PMID 11095950.
- Ilantzis C, DeMarte L, Screaton RA, Stanners CP (2002). “Deregulated Expression of the Human Tumor Marker CEA and CEA Family Member CEACAM6 Disrupts Tissue Architecture and Blocks Colonocyte Differentiation”. Neoplasia. 4 (2): 151–63. doi:10.1038/sj.neo.7900201. PMC 1550325. PMID 11896570.
- Singer BB, Scheffrahn I, Heymann R, et al. (2002). “Carcinoembryonic antigen-related cell adhesion molecule 1 expression and signaling in human, mouse, and rat leukocytes: evidence for replacement of the short cytoplasmic domain isoform by glycosylphosphatidylinositol-linked proteins in human leukocytes”. J. Immunol. 168 (10): 5139–46. doi:10.4049/jimmunol.168.10.5139. PMID 11994468.
- Skubitz KM, Campbell KD, Skubitz AP (2002). “Synthetic peptides from the N-domains of CEACAMs activate neutrophils”. J. Pept. Res. 58 (6): 515–26. doi:10.1034/j.1399-3011.2001.00931.x. PMID 12005421.
- Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, et al. (2003). “Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences”. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899–903. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMC 139241. PMID 12477932.
- Taheri M, Saragovi HU, Stanners CP (2003). “The adhesion and differentiation-inhibitory activities of the immunoglobulin superfamily member, carcinoembryonic antigen, can be independently blocked”. J. Biol. Chem. 278 (17): 14632–9. doi:10.1074/jbc.M212500200. PMID 12571231.
- Duxbury MS, Ito H, Zinner MJ, et al. (2004). “CEACAM6 gene silencing impairs anoikis resistance and in vivo metastatic ability of pancreatic adenocarcinoma cells”. Oncogene. 23 (2): 465–73. doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1207036. PMID 14724575.
External links
- Human CEACAM6 genome location and CEACAM6 gene details page in the UCSC Genome Browser.
- CEACAM6+protein,+human at the US National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
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