Structure and Sequence Analyses of Clustered Protocadherins Reveal Antiparallel Interactions that Mediate Homophilic Specificity.
Nicoludis, J.M., Lau, S.Y., Scharfe, C.P., Marks, D.S., Weihofen, W.A., Gaudet, R.(2015) Structure 23: 2087-2098
- PubMed: 26481813 
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.str.2015.09.005
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
4ZI8, 4ZI9 - PubMed Abstract: 
Clustered protocadherin (Pcdh) proteins mediate dendritic self-avoidance in neurons via specific homophilic interactions in their extracellular cadherin (EC) domains. We determined crystal structures of EC1-EC3, containing the homophilic specificity-determining region, of two mouse clustered Pcdh isoforms (PcdhγA1 and PcdhγC3) to investigate the nature of the homophilic interaction ...