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Facts about Carcinoembryonic antigen-related cell adhesion molecule 6.
Heterophilic interaction with CEACAM8 occurs in activated neutrophils (PubMed:8776764). Plays a role in neutrophil adhesion to cytokine-activated endothelial cells (PubMed:1378450).
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | CEACAM6 |
| Uniprot: | P40199 |
| Entrez: | 4680 |

| Belongs to: |
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| immunoglobulin superfamily |

carcinoembryonic antigen-related cell adhesion molecule 6 (non-specific crossreacting antigen); carcinoembryonic antigen-related cell adhesion molecule 6; CD66c antigen; CD66c; CEACAM6; CEACAM-6; CEAL; NCA; NCACEAL; Non-specific crossreacting antigen; Normal cross-reacting antigen
Mass (kDA):
37.195 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 19q13.2 |
| Sequence: | 19; NC_000019.10 (41755529..41772211) |
Expressed in neutrophils (PubMed:1378450). Expressed in columnar epithelial and goblet cells of the colon (PubMed:10436421). Expressed in numerous tumor cell lines (at protein level) (PubMed:16204051).
Cell membrane; Lipid-anchor, GPI-anchor. Apical cell membrane. Cell surface. Localized to the apical glycocalyx surface.






PMID: 3220478 by Barnett T., et al. Carcinoembryonic antigen family: characterization of cDNAs coding for NCA and CEA and suggestion of nonrandom sequence variation in their conserved loop-domains.
PMID: 3337731 by Tawaragi Y., et al. Primary structure of nonspecific crossreacting antigen (NCA), a member of carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) gene family, deduced from cDNA sequence.