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The Journal of Neuroscience, September 15, 2001, 21(18):7215-7225

Identification of a Neurite Outgrowth-Promoting Motif within the Alternatively Spliced Region of Human Tenascin-C

Sally Meiners, Mohammed S.A. Nur-e-Kamal, and Mary Lynn T. Mercado

Department of Pharmacology, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854

Our work centers on understanding how the extracellular matrix molecule tenascin-C regulates neuronal growth. We have found that the region of tenascin-C containing only alternately spliced fibronectin type-III repeat D, called fnD, when used by itself, dramatically increases neurite outgrowth in culture. We used overlapping synthetic peptides to localize the neurite outgrowth-promoting site within fnD to a 15 amino acid sequence, called D5. An antibody against D5 blocked promotion of neurite outgrowth by fnD as well as tenascin-C, indicating that this peptide sequence is functional in the context of the native molecule. Further testing of shorter synthetic peptides restricted the neurite outgrowth-promoting site to eight amino acids, VFDNFVLK. Of these, "FD" and "FV" are conserved in tenascin-C sequences derived from all the species available in the GenBank. To investigate the hypothesis that FD and FV are critical for the interaction with neurons, we tested a recombinant fnD protein and synthetic peptides with alterations in FD and/or FV. These molecules did not facilitate process extension, suggesting that the conserved amino acids are required for formation of the active site in fnD. We next investigated whether VFDNFVLK could be used as a reagent to overcome the neurite outgrowth inhibitory properties of chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans, the major inhibitory molecules in the glial scar. The peptide significantly enhanced outgrowth on proteoglycans and was more effective than laminin-1, L1-Fc, or intact tenascin-C, thus demonstrating the potential applicability of tenascin-C regions as therapeutic reagents.

Key words: tenascin-C; FN-III repeat; alternatively spliced region; synthetic peptide; site-directed modifications; neurite outgrowth

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