Disintegrin and metalloproteinase domain-containing protein 10 (ADA10) is a transmembrane endopeptidase responsible for the proteolytic release of several cell-surface proteins, including the membrane-bound precursor of TNF-alpha, ligands and receptors of the Notch, Eph, and erbB families, thereby activating signaling pathways critical for tumour initiation and maintenance. This entry represents the cysteine-rich domain which mediates non-catalytic interactions with the substrate that are key for effective cleavage [1-3]. This domain, together with disintegrin domain (Pfam:PF00200), plays an important modulatory role.

1: ADAM and Eph: how Ephrin-signaling cells become detached. Mancia F, Shapiro L; Cell. 2005;123:185-187. PMID:16239135

2: An activated form of ADAM10 is tumor selective and regulates cancer stem-like cells and tumor growth. Atapattu L, Saha N, Chheang C, Eissman MF, Xu K, Vail ME, Hii L, Llerena C, Liu Z, Horvay K, Abud HE, Kusebauch U, Moritz RL, Ding BS, Cao Z, Rafii S, Ernst M, Scott AM, Nikolov DB, Lackmann M, Janes PW; J Exp Med. 2016;213:1741-1757. PMID:27503072

3: Structural Basis for Regulated Proteolysis by the alpha-Secretase ADAM10. Seegar TCM, Killingsworth LB, Saha N, Meyer PA, Patra D, Zimmerman B, Janes PW, Rubinstein E, Nikolov DB, Skiniotis G, Kruse AC, Blacklow SC; Cell. 2017;171:1638-1648. PMID:29224781