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Principles of Axon Guidance
• Chemoaffinity Hypothesis – the specificity of wiring is based on recognition of chemical cues
• Axons reach their targets in a series of discrete steps
• Different cells respond to the same guidance cues in different ways
• Chemical cues exist at many points along the axon guidance pathway e.g the optic tectum and optic tract
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How does an axon find its way? Signposts are everywhere
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How are axons guided to their targets?
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Contract attraction
4Pioneering neurons lead the way!
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Cadherins and immunoglobulins mediate contact attraction
1. Dissociate neurons will aggregate together
2. Cells expressing cadherinswill aggregate together
3. Cadherins and immunoglobulinshave one transmembrane domain
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1) Molecules on different cells recognize each other2) Different combinations can recognize each other3) 100s of molecules in these families
Properties of cadherin (immunoglobin) recognition
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Chemoattraction
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Floor plate
Roof plate
Commissuralneuron
0 125 250 375mm
Commissural neurons extend ventrallyand then toward floor plate,
if within 250mm from the floor plate
Isolating an attractant from the spinal cord
Commissural neurons in the spinal cord are attracted to the floorplate
Culture floorplate + spinal neurons
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Dissect 10,000 chick brains, fractionate proteins
What protein makes axons extend toward it?
Identified a molecule called netrin that is secreted By the floorplate
Isolating an attractant from the spinal cord
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• Netrins are bifunctional molecules, attracting some axons and repelling others.
• The receptors that mediate the attractive and repulsive effects of netrins are also highly conserved.
• Growth cone attraction involves the transmembrane receptors of the DCC family.
• Repulsion involves the transmembrane receptors of the UNC-5 family.
Netrins mediate short and long-range attraction
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Netrins at the midline guide axons in worms, flies and vertebrates
Attractive andrepulsive
PKA mediates attraction
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Three families of axon guidance molecules that mediate repulsion
1) Ephrins (last time)
2) Semaphorins
3) Slits
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Semaphorins
• Family contains over 20 members
• Best characterised function of semaphorins is in axon repulsion
• 2 distinct classes of semaphorin receptors identified• Neuropilins• Plexins
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Semaphorins cause repulsion and growth cone collapse
Semaphorins can be secreted or membrane-bound
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repulsion attraction
Semaphorins can be repulsive or attractive
-SEMA + SEMA
+ cGMP
Expt: Neurons extend their axons toward or away from guidance cues
SEMA is ligand that causes repulsion, butSEMA + cGMP causes attraction
Combinations of factors can produce novel responses
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Central Nervous system of Drosophila embryo
• Neurons make railroad tracks• Some neurons are ipsilateral, • Others cross the midline and are contralateral
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Identifying an axon guidance molecule and its receptor
Expt: screen mutant embryos abnormal CNS patterning
Results: Robo and slit are necessary to repel axons from the midline
Many expts later…
Slit is a repulsive guidance cueSecreted at the midline
Robo is receptor on axon that recognizes slit
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Slits
• Slit is repellent ligand
• Slit has a role in axon guidance at the midline.
• Receptor (Robo) is expressed by axons that run longitudinally and never cross the midline.
• In Robo mutants axons freely cross the midline.
• Commissural axons up-regulate Robo after they have crossed the midline
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Summary of axon guidance molecules and their receptors
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• Four conserved families of axon guidance cues– netrins– slits– semaphorins– Ephrins (last time)
• netrins, slits and some semaphorins are secreted • ephrins and some semaphorins are membrane bound• netrins can act as primarily as attractants• slits, semaphorins and ephrins act primarily as repellents • for each cue there is one or more transmembrane receptor
An overview of axon guidance molecules
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Principles
• Axon guidance molecules can be secreted or membrane-tethered
• Receptors for guidance cues have one transmembrane domain
• The line between receptor and ligand is blurry
“bi-directional signaling”
• The same guidance cue can mediate attraction or repulsion
• Same guidance cues are used over and over for targeting axons
• Guidance molecules are conserved in many organisms
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