CDH17 and neoplasm: α-catenin (Herrenknecht et al., 1991; Nagafuchi et al., 1991) links cadherin/β-catenin or cadherin/plakoglobin complexes to F-actin, either directly (Rimm et al., 1995) or indirectly via α-actinin (Knudsen et al., 1995), vinculin (Watabe-Uchida et al., 1998), formin (Kobielak et al., 2004), or EPLIN (epithelial protein lost in neoplasm) (Abe and Takeichi, 2008).