A new nomenclature for the laminins

✍ Scribed by Burgeson, Robert E.; Chiquet, Matthias; Deutzmann, Rainer; Ekblom, Peter; Engel, Jürgen; Kleinman, Hynda; Martin, George R.; Meneguzzi, Guerrino; Paulsson, Mats; Sanes, Joshua; Timpl, Rupert; Tryggvason, Karl; Yamada, Yoshihiko; Yurchenco, Peter D.

• Book ID: 122463294
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 191 KB
• Volume: 14
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0945-053X
• DOI: 10.1016/0945-053X(94)90184-8

✦ Synopsis

The authors have adopted a new nomenclature for the laminins. They are numbered with arabic numerals in the order discovered. The previous A, B1 and B2 chains, and their isoforms, are (x, [3 and y, respectively, followed by an arabic numeral to identify the isoform. For example, the first laminin identified from the Engelbreth-Holm-Swarm tumor is laminin-1 with the chain composition (xl[~l~/1. The genes for these chains are LAMA1, LAMB1 and LAMC1, respectively.