“…PRG3 and PRG5 belong to the family of plasticity-related genes (PRGs), which defines a subclass of the Lipid Phosphate Phosphatase (LPP) superfamily. The PRG family comprises five, vertebrate, brain-specific membrane proteins, which influence lipid phosphate signaling and thereby promote filopodia formation, neurite extension, axonal sprouting and reorganization after lesions [ 7 , 8 , 9 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 ]. Although PRG3 and PRG5 share the highest structural and sequence similarities within the PRG family, their short (~50 amino acids) intracellularly located C-termini are unique [ 16 , 18 ], which indicates that they might exert different functions in cells compared to each other.…”