Conserved Neuron Promoting Activity in Drosophila and Vertebrate Laminin α1*
Conserved Neuron Promoting Activity in Drosophila and Vertebrate Laminin α1*
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10.1074/jbc.271.30.18074
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1996-07
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Y. Takagi;M. Nomizu;D. Gullberg;A. Mackrell;D. Keene;Yoshihiko Yamada;J. Fessler
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Y. Takagi;M. Nomizu;D. Gullberg;A. Mackrell;D. Keene;Yoshihiko Yamada;J. Fessler
Drosophila S2 cells were transfected with constructs that code for two portions of the Drosophila laminin α chain. Construct recαL coded for domains III, I/II, and G of laminin α. Construct recαS coded for only the COOH-most 12% of the I/II domain and the G domain. The corresponding polypeptides were isolated and characterized from the culture media. The recαL chain partly formed disulfide-linked heterotrimers with the endogenously produced β and γ laminin chains. Like normal Drosophila laminin, a substrate coating of either recαL or recαS supported neuron differentiation and neurite extension of primary Drosophila embryo cell cultures. However, at the same low concentrations, only Drosophila laminin-1, but neither recαL nor recαS supported myogenesis in these cultures. Previously, an overlapping set of dodecapeptides that covered a region of the murine laminin α1 chain similar to recαS had been synthesized and tested for cell culture support properties (Nomizu, M., Kim, W. H., Yamamura, K., Utani, A., Otaka, A., Roller, P. P., Kleinman, H. K., and Yamada, Y. (1995) J. Biol. Chem. 270, 20583-20590). The Drosophila laminin α homologues of the six most active vertebrate dodecapeptides were now synthesized and tested as substrates for differentiation of primary Drosophila embryo cells. Peptides that contained either the Drosophila sequence SIKVGV or the murine homologue, SIKVAV, provided support for neurite extension.