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A conserved Neurite Outgrowth and Guidance motif with biomimetic potential in neuronal Cell Adhesion Molecules

ABSTRACT: Graphical abstract The extracellular domains of several neuronal Cell Adhesion Molecules (CAMs) are endowed with Ig-like fold (Ig, hexagons) and fibronectin-like III (FnIII, pentagons) repeats. Such CAMs mediate homo- and heterophilic interactions crucial for neurite outgrowth and guidance (NOG). The Ig2 domains of these CAMs share a specific and highly conserved NOG motif, bioinformatically represented by a Prosite pattern. Developed synthetic peptides derived from the NOG motif are able to mimic the pro-neuritogenic activities of CAMs they are derived from and hence can be used as a toolbox for neurodevelopmental studies and regenerative medicine. The discovery of conserved protein motifs can, in turn, unveil important regulatory signals, and when properly designed, synthetic peptides derived from such motifs can be used as biomimetics for biotechnological and therapeutic purposes. We report here that specific Ig-like repeats from the extracellular domains of neuronal Cell Adhesion Molecules share a highly conserved Neurite Outgrowth and Guidance (NOG) motif, which mediates homo- and heterophilic interactions crucial in neural development and repair. Synthetic peptides derived from the NOG motif of such proteins can boost neuritogenesis, and this potential is also retained by peptides with recombinant sequences, when fitting the NOG sequence pattern. The NOG motif discovery not only provides one more tile to the complex puzzle of neuritogenesis, but also opens the route to new neural regeneration strategies via a tunable biomimetic toolbox.

SUBMITTER: Scapin G

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8529090 | biostudies-literature |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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A conserved Neurite Outgrowth and Guidance motif with biomimetic potential in neuronal Cell Adhesion Molecules

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