integrin, alpha 6|The ITGA6 protein product is the integrin alpha chain alpha 6. Integrins are integral cell-surface proteins composed of an alpha chain and a beta chain. A given chain may combine with multiple partners resulting in different integrins. For example, alpha 6 may combine with beta 4 in the integrin referred to as TSP180, or with beta 1 in the integrin VLA-6. Integrins are known to participate in cell adhesion as well as cell-surface mediated signalling. Two transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008] (NCBI Entrez Gene Database, 3655)
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7 genes co-occuring with the biological term itga6 in literature-supported statements describing functions of genes from the GeneRIF Biological Term Annotations dataset.
