Any of a class of animal transmembrane proteins involved in the adhesion of cells to each other and to their substrate.
〔生化〕整联蛋白，整合蛋白
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The expression of integrins on the cell surface facilitates adhesion.
Understanding the nature of the interaction between the integrin and cell adhesion molecules can aid in the design of potent therapeutics.
Transmembrane proteins, such as integrins, anchor cells to the substrate.
The elucidation of the fly genome makes it relatively straightforward to generate and study mutations in proteins previously associated with integrins from other systems.
This process is coordinately regulated by the spatial and temporal expression of integrins across the cell surface.