Susan van Erp, Dianne M A van den Heuvel, Yuki Fujita, Ross A Robinson, Anita J C G M Hellemons, Youri Adolfs, Eljo Y Van Battum, Anna M Blokhuis, Marijn Kuijpers, Jeroen A A Demmers, Håkan Hedman, Casper C Hoogenraad, Christian Siebold, Toshihide Yamashita, R Jeroen Pasterkamp
Many guidance receptors are proteolytically cleaved by membrane-associated metalloproteases of the ADAM family, leading to the shedding of their ectodomains. Ectodomain shedding is crucial for receptor signaling and function, but how this process is controlled in neurons remains poorly understood. Here, we show that the transmembrane protein Lrig2 negatively regulates ADAM-mediated guidance receptor proteolysis in neurons. Lrig2 binds Neogenin, a receptor for repulsive guidance molecules (RGMs), and prevents premature Neogenin shedding by ADAM17 (TACE)...
December 7, 2015: Developmental Cell