ArticlePLoS biology2016
Dscam1 Forms a Complex with Robo1 and the N-Terminal Fragment of Slit to Promote the Growth of Longitudinal Axons.
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- The Slit-Robo signalling pathway in nervous system development: a comparative perspective from vertebrates and invertebrates.Open biology · 2025Review
- Neurons maintain sequential order during radial migration by DSCAM-facilitated antagonism of N-Cadherin.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Expanding ligand-receptor interaction networks for axon guidance: Structural insights into signal crosstalk and specificity.Current opinion in neurobiology · 2025Review
- Oculomotor axons use external and autocrine Slit signals for fasciculation, navigation, branching, and connectivity in mouse embryos.Research square · 2025Article
- Exploring perspectives of Dscam for cognitive deficits: a review of multifunction for regulating neural wiring in homeostasis.Frontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2025Review
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- Systematic analysis of the Frazzled receptor interactome establishes previously unreported regulators of axon guidance.Development (Cambridge, England) · 2023Article
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- Neuronal guidance genes in health and diseases.Protein & cell · 2023Review
- Dscam1 overexpression impairs the function of the gut nervous system in Drosophila.Developmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists · 2023Article
- Memory consolidation in honey bees is enhanced by down-regulation ofFrontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2023Article
- Dual Leucine Zipper Kinase Regulates Dscam Expression through a Noncanonical Function of the Cytoplasmic Poly(A)-Binding Protein.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2022Article
- The Slit-binding Ig1 domain is required for multiple axon guidance activities of Drosophila Robo2.Genesis (New York, N.Y. : 2000) · 2021Article
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Abstract
The Slit protein is a major midline repellent for central nervous system (CNS) axons. In vivo, Slit is proteolytically cleaved into N- and C-terminal fragments, but the biological significance of this is unknown. Analysis in the Drosophila ventral nerve cord of a slit allele (slit-UC) that cannot be cleaved revealed that midline repulsion is still present but longitudinal axon guidance is disrupted, particularly across segment boundaries. Double mutants for the Slit receptors Dscam1 and robo1 strongly resemble the slit-UC phenotype, suggesting they cooperate in longitudinal axon guidance, and through biochemical approaches, we found that Dscam1 and Robo1 form a complex dependent on Slit-N. In contrast, Robo1 binding alone shows a preference for full-length Slit, whereas Dscam1 only binds Slit-N. Using a variety of transgenes, we demonstrated that Dscam1 appears to modify the output of Robo/Slit complexes so that signaling is no longer repulsive. Our data suggest that the complex is promoting longitudinal axon growth across the segment boundary. The ability of Dscam1 to modify the output of other receptors in a ligand-dependent fashion may be a general principle for Dscam proteins.
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