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ArticleBiochemical and biophysical research communications2019

Semaphorin/neuropilin binding specificities are stable over 400 million years of evolution.

Zhili He, Ezekiel Crenshaw, Jonathan A Raper

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Article in Biochemical and biophysical research communications, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 47% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Plexin B3 guides axons to cross the midlineFrontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2024
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  2. Structure and evolution of neuronal wiring receptors and ligands.Developmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists · 2023
    Review
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  4. Semaphorins in Adult Nervous System Plasticity and Disease.Frontiers in synaptic neuroscience · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Zhili HeDept. of Neurosciences, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Department of Neurology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430022, Hubei, China.
Ezekiel CrenshawDept. of Neurosciences, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Jonathan A RaperDept. of Neurosciences, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Electronic address: raperj@pennmedicine.upenn.edu.
University of Pennsylvania · USUnion Hospital · CN

Funding

University of Pennsylvania Postdoctoral Opportunities in Research and TeachingK12GM081259 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI Janis K. Burkhardt · 2007 to 2026
$20.1M
Targeting of sensory axons in the olfactory bulbR01DC012854 · NIDCD · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI JONATHAN A RAPER · 2013 to 2026
$6.6M
NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC012854NIGMS NIH HHS K12 GM081259
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Semaphorins are a large and important family of signaling molecules conserved in Bilateria. An important determinant of the biological function of their largest class, the secreted class 3 semaphorins, is the specificity of their binding to neuropilins, a key component of a larger holoreceptor complex. We compared these binding specificities in mice and zebrafish, species whose most recent common ancestor was more than 400 million years in the past. We also compared the binding specificities of zebrafish class 3 semaphorins that were duplicated very early within the teleost lineage. We found a surprising conservation of neuropilin binding specificities when comparing both paralogous zebrafish semaphorin pairs and orthologous zebrafish and mouse semaphorin pairs. This finding was further supported by a remarkable conservation of binding specificities in cross-species pairings of semaphorins and neuropilins. Our results suggest that the qualitative specificities with which particular semaphorins bind to particular neuropilins has remained nearly invariant over approximately 400 million years of evolution.

Indexed as

AnimalsBiological EvolutionHumansMiceNeuropilinsPhylogenyProtein BindingSemaphorinsSpecies SpecificityZebrafishNeuropilinsSemaphorinsAxonal guidanceEvolutionary conservationNeuropilinsSemaphorins

Identifiers

PMID31349972
PMCPMC10863626
OpenAlexW2964290655

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