Nature Communications (Mar 2023)

The dynamic nature of netrin-1 and the structural basis for glycosaminoglycan fragment-induced filament formation

  • Markus Meier,
  • Monika Gupta,
  • Serife Akgül,
  • Matthew McDougall,
  • Thomas Imhof,
  • Denise Nikodemus,
  • Raphael Reuten,
  • Aniel Moya-Torres,
  • Vu To,
  • Fraser Ferens,
  • Fabian Heide,
  • Gay Pauline Padilla-Meier,
  • Philipp Kukura,
  • Wenming Huang,
  • Birgit Gerisch,
  • Matthias Mörgelin,
  • Kate Poole,
  • Adam Antebi,
  • Manuel Koch,
  • Jörg Stetefeld

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36692-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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In this work, the authors report that heparin oligosaccharides have a significant impact on the highly dynamic behaviour of netrin-1 by inducing hierarchical and distinct super assemblies leading to unique, yet unknown netrin-1 filament formation.