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Effect of synthetic peptides derived from SCO-spondin conserved domains on chick cortical and spinal-cord neurons in cell cultures.

Abstract：

:SCO-spondin is a newly identified protein, strongly expressed in the subcommissural organ (SCO), an ependymal differentiation of the brain. When secreted into the cerebrospinal fluid at the entrance to the Sylvian aqueduct, it condenses and forms Reissner's fiber. Several conserved domains have previously been characterizedin SCO-spondin, e.g., thrombospondin type 1 repeats (TSRs), low-density lipoprotein receptor (LDLr) type A repeats, and epidermal-growth-factor-like domains, which are potent sites of protein-protein interaction. To clarify the role of this protein on neuronal development, we have tested the effect of oligopeptides, the sequences of which include highly conserved amino acids of TSRs, LDLr type A repeats and a potent site of attachment to proteoglycan, on cortical and spinal-cord neurons in primary cell cultures. One of these peptides (WSGWSSCSRSCG), corresponding to a SCO-spondin TSR sequence, markedly increases adhesivity and neuritic outgrowth of cortical neurons and induces an opposite effect on cortical and spinal-cord neuronal aggregation. These effects are specific, as no response is observed with the scrambled sequence of this peptide. Another peptide (WGPCSVSCG) is only slightly active on adhesivity and neuritic outgrowth of cortical neurons and has no effect on spinal-cord neurons. Peptides derived from other conserved domains of SCO-spondin are not effective under our experimental conditions. Thus, SCO-spondin may be responsible for at least a part of the effects previously observed on neuronal cells cultured in the presence of Reissner's fiber. In addition, SCO-spondin seems to interfere with neuronal development and/or axonal guidance during ontogenesis of the central nervous system in modulating side-to-side interactions and neuritic outgrowth.

journal_name

Cell Tissue Res

journal_title

Cell and tissue research

authors

Monnerie H,Dastugue B,Meiniel A

doi

10.1007/s004410051132

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1998-09-01 00:00:00

pages

407-18

issue

eissn

0302-766X

issn

1432-0878

journal_volume

293

pub_type

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Effect of synthetic peptides derived from SCO-spondin conserved domains on chick cortical and spinal-cord neurons in cell cultures.