As with epithelial cadherin, which plays an essential role in cell–cell adhesion, glycosylation of N-linked glycans on epithelial cadherin in the Golgi apparatus can influence epithelial–mesenchymal transition—which leads to metastatic lesions—through wound healing processes; it is thought that this mechanism may facilitate cancer cells leaving their original site during normal physiological processes like wound healing for metastasis and spread. The gene discussed is CDH1; the disease is cancer.