A disintegrin and metalloproteinases (ADAMs)2 are a recently discovered gene family of membrane-anchored and secreted proteins that have proteolytic and/or adhesive properties (1, 2). At present, more than 30 members have been identified in humans (3, 4). The precursor forms of ADAMs (proADAMs) are composed of propeptide, metalloproteinase, disintegrin-like, cysteine-rich, epidermal growth factor (EGF)-like, transmembrane and cytoplasmic domains (4, 5). Roles of ADAMs include cell surface processing of membrane proteins such as tumor necrosis factor-␣ by ADAM17 (6), heparin-binding epidermal growth factor by ADAM9 (7), ADAM12 (8), and ADAM17 (9) and amyloid precursor protein by ADAM10 (10) and ADAM17 (11). ADAMs are also reported to digest various proteins, including type IV collagen by ADAM10 (12) and insulin-like growth factor binding protein-3 (IGFBP-3) by ADAM12 (13) and ADAM28 (14). On the other hand, accumulated lines of evidence have shown that the disintegrin-like domain of many ADAM members interacts with integrins (3, 15), although a recent study on crystal structures suggested that the integrin-binding motif within the disintegrin-like domain is structurally inaccessible for protein binding (16). The secreted form of ADAM9 has recently been reported to lead to invasion by binding to ␣64 and ␣21 integrins (17). The cysteine-rich domain of ADAM12 is known to interact with syndecans on mesenchymal cells, leading to the 1 integrin-mediated cell spreading (18). The disintegrin-like and cysteine-rich domains of ADAM13 bind to laminin and fibronectin (19). However, information about the binding molecules of ADAMs and their functional modulation by these interactions is still limited.ADAM28 is expressed by human peripheral blood lymphocytes in two alternative forms, i.e. a prototype membrane-anchored form (ADAM28m) and a secreted form (ADAM28s) (20). The disintegrin-like domain of ADAM28 is reported to interact with integrins ␣41, ␣47 and ␣91 on lymphocytes in an activation-dependent manner of the integrins (21, 22). The metalloproteinase domain of ADAM28 has the zinc-binding catalytic-site consensus sequence, and ADAM28 cleaves myelin basic protein (23), CD23 ectodomain (24), and . In addition, we have reported that ADAM28 is overexpressed in non-small cell lung carcinomas with correlations to carcinoma cell proliferation and lymph node metastasis (25), and we have recently shown that ADAM28 plays a role in breast carcinoma cell proliferation through enhanced bioavailability of insulinlike growth factor-I by selective digestion of IGFBP-3 of the insulin-like growth factor-I⅐IGFBP-3 complex (26). Thus, these data suggest the possibility that ADAM28 is involved in various cellular and tissue reactions such as cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions, cell motility, shedding of cell surface proteins, and * This work was supported by Grants-in-aid for Scientific Research 16209015 and 18790254 from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (to Y. O. and M. S., respectively)....