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Subunit: Interacts with GREM1 (By similarity). Homodimer. Binds ROBO1 and ROBO2 with high affinity 4 PDB 3D structures from [IMAGE] and Proteopedia [IMAGE] for SLIT2: 2V70 (3D) [IMAGE] 2V9S (3D) [IMAGE] 2V9T (3D) [IMAGE] 2WFH (3D) [IMAGE]
Tissue specificity: Fetal lung and kidney, and adult spinal cord. Weak expression in adult adrenal gland, thyroid, trachea and other tissues examined [IMAGE] Pathway & Disease-focused RT2 Profiler PCR Arrays including SLIT2: Neurogenesis in human mouse rat Lung Cancer in hum
Function: UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot Summary: SLIT2_HUMAN, O94813 Function: Thought to act as molecular guidance cue in cellular migration, and function appears to be mediated by interaction with roundabout homolog receptors. During neural development involved in axonal navigation at the ventral midline of the neural tube and projection of axons to different regions. SLIT1 and SLIT2 seem to be essential for midline guidance in the forebrain by acting as repulsive signal preventing inappropriate midline crossing by axons projecting from the olfactory bulb. In spinal chord development may play a role in guiding commissural axons once they reached the floor plate by modulating the response to netrin. In vitro, silences the attractive effect of NTN1 but not its growth-stimulatory effect and silencing requires the formation of a ROBO1-DCC complex. May be implicated in spinal chord midline post-crossing axon repulsion. In vitro, only commissural axons that crossed the midline responded to SLIT2. In the developing visual system appears to function as repellent for retinal ganglion axons by providing a repulsion that directs these axons along their appropriate paths prior to, and after passage through, the optic chiasm. In vitro, collapses and repels retinal ganglion cell growth cones. Seems to play a role in branching and arborization of CNS sensory axons, and in neuronal cell migration. In vitro, Slit homolog 2 protein N-product, but not Slit homolog 2 protein C-product, repels olfactory bulb (OB) but not dorsal root ganglia (DRG) axons, induces OB growth cones collapse and induces branching of DRG axons. Seems to be involved in regulating leukocyte migration
Similarity: Contains 1 CTCK (C-terminal cystine knot-like) domain Contains 7 EGF-like domains Contains 1 laminin G-like domain Contains 20 LRR (leucine-rich) repeats Contains 4 LRRCT domains Contains 4 LRRNT domains [IMAGE]
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