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The cell adhesion molecule L1 is a multifunctional protein in the nervous system characterizing cell adhesion, migration, and neurite outgrowth. In addition to full-length L1, we found an alternatively spliced variant lacking both the KGHHV sequence in the extracellular part and the RSLE sequence in the cytoplasmic part of L1. This L1 variant was expressed exclusively in nonneuronal cells such as Schwann cells, astrocytes, and oligodendrocytes, in contrast to the expression of the full-length L1 in neurons and cells of neuronal origin. To investigate the functions of the L1 variant, we established cell lines transfected with a cytoplasmic short L1 (L1cs) cDNA that lacks only the 12-bp segment encoding for the RSLE sequence. The promoting activities of homophilic cell adhesion, neurite outgrowth, and neuronal cell migration of L1cs-transfected cells (L4-2) were similar to those of full-length L1-transfected cells (L3-1), but the cell migratory activity of L4-2 itself was clearly lower than that of L3-1. In conclusion, the short form of L1 is a nonneuronal type, in contrast to the neuronal type of the full-length L1. Deletion of the four amino acids RSLE in the cytoplasmic region of L1 markedly reduced cell migratory activity, suggesting an importance of the RSLE sequence for the signaling events of neuronal migration mediated by L1.
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