title: OKCAM: an ontology-based, human-centered knowledgebase for cell adhesion molecules.
abstract: 'Cell adhesion molecules' (CAMs) are essential elements of cell/cell communication that are important for proper development and plasticity of a variety of organs and tissues. In the brain, appropriate assembly and tuning of neuronal connections is likely to require appropriate function of many cell adhesion processes. Genetic studies have linked and/or associated CAM variants with psychiatric, neurologic, neoplastic, immunologic and developmental phenotypes. However, despite increasing recognition of their functional and pathological significance, no systematic study has enumerated CAMs or documented their global features. We now report compilation of 496 human CAM genes in six gene families based on manual curation of protein domain structures, Gene Ontology annotations, and 1487 NCBI Entrez annotations. We map these genes onto a cell adhesion molecule ontology that contains 850 terms, up to seven levels of depth and provides a hierarchical description of these molecules and their functions. We develop OKCAM, a CAM knowledgebase that provides ready access to these data and ontologic system at http://okcam.cbi.pku.edu.cn. We identify global CAM properties that include: (i) functional enrichment, (ii) over-represented regulation modes and expression patterns and (iii) relationships to human Mendelian and complex diseases, and discuss the strengths and limitations of these data.
authors.affiliation: Molecular Neurobiology Branch, NIH-IRP (NIDA), Baltimore, MD 21224, USA.
authors.forename: Chuan-Yun
authors.initials: CY
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Qing-Rong
authors.initials: QR
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Ping-Wu
authors.initials: PW
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Xiao-Mo
authors.initials: XM
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Liping
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.forename: George R
authors.initials: GR
authors.lastname: Uhl
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D015815:Cell Adhesion Molecules / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D030562:Databases, Protein; D006801:Humans; D051379:Mice; D051381:Rats; D014584:User-Computer Interface
chemical_list: D015815:Cell Adhesion Molecules
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