A NEW NOMENCLATURE FOR THE LAMININS

Authors
BURGESON RE CHIQUET M DEUTZMANN R EKBLOM P ENGEL J KLEINMAN H MARTIN GR MENEGUZZI G PAULSSON M SANES J TIMPL R TRYGGVASON K YAMADA Y YURCHENCO PD
Citation
Re. Burgeson et al., A NEW NOMENCLATURE FOR THE LAMININS, Matrix biology, 14(3), 1994, pp. 209-211
Citations number
1
Categorie Soggetti
Biology,"Cytology & Histology
Journal title
Matrix biology → ACNP
ISSN journal
0945053X
Volume
14
Issue
3
Year of publication
1994
Pages
209 - 211
Database
ISI
SICI code
0945-053X(1994)14:3<209:ANNFTL>2.0.ZU;2-X
Abstract
The authors have adopted a new nomenclature for the laminins. They are numbered with arabic numeral in the order discovered. The previous A, B1 and B2 chains, and their isoforms, are alpha, beta and gamma and r espectively, followed by an arabic numeral to identify the isoform. Fo r example, the first laminin identified from the Engelbreth-Holm-Swarm tumor is laminin-1 with the chain composition alpha 1 beta 1 gamma 1. . The genes for these chains are LAMA1, LAMB1 and LAMC1, respectively.