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Melanoma Adhesion Molecule
Melanoma adhesion molecule (646 aa, 72 kD) is a cell adhesion process protein that is encoded by the human MCAM gene and has roles in anatomical structure morphogenesis and cell adhesion. (NCI Thesaurus)
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