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@article{Cavallaro2004CellAA, title={Cell adhesion and signalling by cadherins and Ig-CAMs in cancer}, author={Ugo Cavallaro and Gerhard Christofori}, journal={Nature Reviews Cancer}, year={2004}, volume={4}, pages={118-132}, url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:18383054} }
In addition to their adhesive functions, cell-adhesion molecules modulate signal-transduction pathways by interacting with molecules such as receptor tyrosine kinases, components of the WNT signalling pathway and RHO-family GTPases, which have a crucial role in tumour progression.