ArticleJournal of neurobiology2006
RhoA-kinase and myosin II are required for the maintenance of growth cone polarity and guidance by nerve growth factor.
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- A modified motor-clutch model reveals that neuronal growth cones respond faster to soft substrates.Molecular biology of the cell · 2024Article
- Axonal pathfinding during the development of the nervous system.Annals of the Child Neurology Society · 2023Review
- Antagonistic Activities of Fmn2 and ADF Regulate Axonal F-Actin Patch Dynamics and the Initiation of Collateral Branching.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2022Article
- Context-Dependent Role of miR-124 in Retinoic Acid-Induced Growth Cone Attraction of Regenerating Motorneurons.Cellular and molecular neurobiology · 2022Article
- SARM1 Suppresses Axon Branching Through Attenuation of Axonal Cytoskeletal Dynamics.Frontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2022Article
- Giant ankyrin-B mediates transduction of axon guidance and collateral branch pruning factor sema 3A.eLife · 2021Article
- Macrophage-specific RhoA knockout delays Wallerian degeneration after peripheral nerve injury in mice.Journal of neuroinflammation · 2021Article
- Bioenergetic Requirements and Spatiotemporal Profile of Nerve Growth Factor Induced PI3K-Akt Signaling Along Sensory Axons.Frontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2021Article
- Non-Muscle Myosin II in Axonal Cell Biology: From the Growth Cone to the Axon Initial Segment.Cells · 2020Review
- The bioenergetics of neuronal morphogenesis and regeneration: Frontiers beyond the mitochondrion.Developmental neurobiology · 2020Review
- TRP Channels Regulation of Rho GTPases in Brain Context and Diseases.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2020Review
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- A Subtle Network Mediating Axon Guidance: Intrinsic Dynamic Structure of Growth Cone, Attractive and Repulsive Molecular Cues, and the Intermediate Role of Signaling Pathways.Neural plasticity · 2019Review
- Mammalian nonmuscle myosin II comes in three flavors.Biochemical and biophysical research communications · 2018Review
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Abstract
Growth cones are highly polarized and dynamic structures confined to the tips of axons. The polarity of growth cones is in part maintained by suppression of protrusive activity from the distal axon shaft, a process termed axon consolidation. The mechanistic basis of axon consolidation that contributes to the maintenance of growth cone polarity is not clear. We report that inhibition of RhoA-kinase (ROCK) or myosin II resulted in unstable consolidation of the distal axon as evidenced by increased filopodial and lamellipodial extension. Furthermore, when ROCK or myosin II was inhibited lamellipodia formed at the growth cone migrated onto the axon shaft. Analysis of EYFP-actin dynamics in the distal axon revealed that ROCK negatively regulates actin polymerization and initiation of protrusive structures from spontaneously formed axonal F-actin patches, the latter being an effect attributable to ROCK-mediated regulation of myosin II. Inhibition of ROCK or myosin II blocked growth cone turning toward NGF by preventing suppression of protrusive activity away from the source of NGF, resulting in aborted turning responses. These data elucidate the mechanism of growth cone polarity, provide evidence that consolidation of the distal axon is a component of guidance, and identify ROCK as a negative regulator of F-actin polymerization underlying protrusive activity in the distal axon.
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