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The co-culturing of embryonic neurons and astrocytes derived from distinct brain regions has demonstrated that neuronal morphology and polarity can be in ̄uenced through region-speci®c neuro-astroglial interactions. In an attempt to search for region-speci®c factors capable of modulating neuronal morphologies a new strategy has been developed, aimed at antagonizing homeoprotein activity which demonstrated that homeoproteins control the morphological traits of post-mitotic neurons. In the course of the latter experiments we have observed that homeodomains and homeoproteins translocate across biological membranes and gain access to the cytoplasm and nucleus of live cells where they can interfere with the transcriptional activity of endogeneous homeoproteins. We identi®ed the third helix of the homeodomain as the shortest structure necessary and sucient for internalization and used it to address pharmacological substances inside the cells, in particular peptidic and phosphopeptidic antagonists of distinct signalling pathways. The internalization of full-length homeoproteins led to the investigation of the possibility that homeoproteins are secreted. It was shown that Engrailed gains a

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Author

A. Prochiantz

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0885-6222)

Published

1999

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)