Neuron polarization is essential for the formation of one axon and multiple dendrites, establishing the neuronal circuitry. Phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) signaling promotes axon selection and elongation. Here we report in hippocampal neurons siRNA knockdown of the proline-rich inositol polyphosphate 5-phosphatase (PIPP), which degrades PI3K-generated PtdIns(3,4,5)P 3 , results in multiple hyperelongated axons consistent with a polarization defect. We identify collapsin response mediator protein 2 (CRMP2), which regulates axon selection by promoting WAVE1 delivery via Kinesin-1 motors to the axon growth cone, as a PIPP-interacting protein by Y2H screening, direct binding studies, and coimmunoprecipitation of an endogenous PIPP, CRMP2, and Kinesin-1 complex from brain lysates. The C-terminal growth cone-targeting domain of PIPP facilitates its interaction with CRMP2. PIPP growth cone localization is CRMP2-dependent. PIPP knockdown in PC12 cells promotes neurite elongation, WAVE1 and Kinesin-1 growth cone localization, whereas knockdown of CRMP2 exhibits the opposite phenotype, with shorter neurites and decreased WAVE1/Kinesin-1 at the growth cone. In contrast, CRMP2 overexpression promotes neurite elongation, a phenotype rescued by full-length PIPP, or expression of the CRMP2-binding PIPP domain. Therefore this study identifies PIPP and CRMP2 exert opposing roles in promoting axon selection and neurite elongation and the complex between these proteins serves to regulate the localization of effectors that promote neurite extension.Neurons are highly polarized cells that contain one long axon, which transmits information, and multiple shorter dendrites, which receive information (1, 2). The formation of axon/ dendrite polarity is critical for normal brain function. Neurons form networks connecting via synapses to other neurons, by extending axons in a process of neurite outgrowth and elongation. An actin-rich area at the tip of extending neurites, called the growth cone, enables neurite extension. Many signaling and actin regulatory factors function at the growth cone to promote neurite outgrowth and extension (2).The phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K)/Akt signaling pathway promotes both neuronal polarity and neurite extension. In response to nerve growth factor (NGF) stimulation PI3K phosphorylates PtdIns(4,5)P 2 3 to form PtdIns(3,4,5)P 3 , a lipid signal that promotes neurite differentiation (3). In elongating neurons PtdIns(3,4,5)P 3 activates Rho GTPases Cdc42 and Rac1 that in turn regulate growth cone actin dynamics facilitating growth cone advancement (4, 5). PtdIns(3,4,5)P 3 also binds and activates the serine/threonine kinase Akt, which phosphorylates numerous targets, including Tau, GSK3, Ezrin, and Pak1 to regulate neuronal polarity, neurite outgrowth, and elongation (6, 7). GSK3 is inactivated by Akt phosphorylation (8) in the nascent growth cone (7, 9, 10). GSK3 effectors include CRMP2 (11, 12) and adenomatous polyposis coli (10, 13), which promote microtubule polymerization in the nascent axon driv...