The αvβ3 integrin/Thy-1 interaction was additionally extended to other integrins, such as αxβ2 and αMβ2 in leukocytes (Choi et al., 2005), and α5β1 in melanoma cells (Fiore et al., 2015)[reviewed in (Leyton et al., 2019)]. Here, THY1 is linked to melanoma.