Nature Communications (Dec 2021)

Extracellular matrix remodeling through endocytosis and resurfacing of Tenascin-R

  • Tal M. Dankovich,
  • Rahul Kaushik,
  • Linda H. M. Olsthoorn,
  • Gabriel Cassinelli Petersen,
  • Philipp Emanuel Giro,
  • Verena Kluever,
  • Paola Agüi-Gonzalez,
  • Katharina Grewe,
  • Guobin Bao,
  • Sabine Beuermann,
  • Hannah Abdul Hadi,
  • Jose Doeren,
  • Simon Klöppner,
  • Benjamin H. Cooper,
  • Alexander Dityatev,
  • Silvio O. Rizzoli

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27462-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 23

Abstract

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Synapses are surrounded by an extracellular matrix (ECM) of extremely long-lived proteins that is thought to only be remodeled by proteolysis and de novo synthesis. Here, the authors show an alternative molecular recycling mechanism that occurs for the key ECM protein Tenascin-R.