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In this review, the structural biology of interaction between the neural cell adhesion molecule (NCAM) and the fibroblast growth factor (FGF) receptor is described and a possible mechanism of the FGF-receptor activation by NCAM is discussed. Most of the FGF-receptor molecules are thought to be constantly involved in a transient interaction with NCAM. However, the FGF-receptor becomes activated only when NCAM is involved in the trans-homophilic binding (mediating cell-cell adhesion). The trans-homophilic binding between the NCAM molecules is believed to result in the formation of either one- or two-dimensional “zipper”-like arrays of the NCAM molecules, which leads to NCAM clustering and as a result to clustering of the FGF-receptor, which in turn may lead to its activation through a direct receptor-receptor dimerization (and thus activation) due to an increase in the local concentration of the receptor.
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Kiselyov, V.V. (2010). NCAM and the FGF-Receptor. In: Berezin, V. (eds) Structure and Function of the Neural Cell Adhesion Molecule NCAM. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 663. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1170-4_4
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