Nature Communications (Jul 2022)

Neuropilin 1 and its inhibitory ligand mini-tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase inversely regulate VE-cadherin turnover and vascular permeability

  • Noemi Gioelli,
  • Lisa J. Neilson,
  • Na Wei,
  • Giulia Villari,
  • Wenqian Chen,
  • Bernhard Kuhle,
  • Manuel Ehling,
  • Federica Maione,
  • Sander Willox,
  • Serena Brundu,
  • Daniele Avanzato,
  • Grigorios Koulouras,
  • Massimiliano Mazzone,
  • Enrico Giraudo,
  • Xiang-Lei Yang,
  • Donatella Valdembri,
  • Sara Zanivan,
  • Guido Serini

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31904-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Functional vascular tree formation is a key step in many contexts, such as cancer, and Neuropilin1 (NRP1) has been associated with adhesion receptor endocytic turnover. Here, authors show NRP1 and its mini-WARS ligand play a role in reducing endothelial permeability.