“…Interestingly, multiple members of the JAM protein family have also been shown to act as receptors for viruses (Bergelson et al 1997, Barton et al 2001 and have been shown to localize to intercellular junctions (Martin-Padura et al 1998, Liu et al 2000, Cohen et al 2001. The JAM proteins are type I transmembrane proteins consisting of an N-terminal signal peptide, an extracellular domain, a single membrane-spanning domain and a short cytoplasmic tail (Malergue et al 1998, MartinPadura et al 1998, Ozaki et al 1999, Williams et al 1999, Cunningham et al 2000, Liu et al 2000, Palmeri et al 2000, Sobocka et al 2000, Arrate et al 2001, Aurrand-Lions et al 2001a,b, Naik et al 2001, Liang et al 2002, Santoso et al 2002, Hirabayashi et al 2003, Moog-Lutz et al 2003. The extracellular domains of JAMs consist of two immunoglobulin-like loops, each containing an intradomain disulfide bond while the cytoplasmic tails of several members terminate in putative PDZ-binding motifs that appear to mediate binding to intercellular junction-associated scaffold proteins (Cunningham et al 2000, Ebnet et al 2000, 2001, Martinez-Estrada et al 2001, Hamazaki et al 2002, Santoso et al 2002, Hirabayashi et al 2003.…”