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Advillin Is Expressed in All Adult Neural Crest-Derived Neurons.

Diana V Hunter, Brittney D Smaila, Douglas M Lopes, Jun Takatoh, Franziska Denk, Matt S Ramer

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6 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Diana V HunterInternational Collaboration on Repair Discoveries (ICORD), the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V5Z1M9, Canada.
Brittney D SmailaInternational Collaboration on Repair Discoveries (ICORD), the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V5Z1M9, Canada.
Douglas M LopesWolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases, King's College London, London SE1 1UL, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-1056-9199
Jun TakatohDepartment of Neurobiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27710.
Franziska DenkWolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases, King's College London, London SE1 1UL, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-4883-4234
Matt S RamerInternational Collaboration on Repair Discoveries (ICORD), the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V5Z1M9, Canada.
University of British Columbia · CAKing's College London · GBDuke University · US

Funding

UCD Mutant Mouse Regional Resource CenterU42OD012210 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS · PI KC KENT LLOYD · 2012 to 2026
$29.2M
NIH HHS U42 OD012210Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Promoter-based genetic recombination (via, e.g., Cre-lox) is most useful when all cells of interest express a particular gene. The discovery that the actin-binding protein advillin is expressed in all somatic sensory neurons has been exploited repeatedly to drive DNA recombination therein, yet specificity of expression has not been well demonstrated. Here, we characterize advillin expression amongst sensory neurons and in several other neural and non-neural tissues. We first validate an advillin antibody against advillin knock-out tissue, advillin promoter-driven EGFP, and advillin mRNA expression. In the dorsal root ganglion (DRG), advillin is enriched in non-peptidergic nociceptors. We also show that advillin expression, and advillin promotor-driven EGFP and Cre-recombinase expression, occurs in multiple tissues including the dorsal habenula of the epithalamus, endocrine cells of the gut, Merkel cells in the skin, and most strikingly, throughout the autonomic nervous system (sympathetic, parasympathetic, and enteric neurons) in mice, rats, and non-human primates. In the mouse pelvic ganglion, advillin immunoreactivity is most intense in pairs of small neurons, and concentrated in spine-like structures on the axon initial segment contacted by sympathetic preganglionic axons. In autonomic targets (iris and blood vessels), advillin is distributed along cholinergic parasympathetic axons and in sympathetic varicosities. Developmentally, advillin expression is absent from sympathetics at postnatal day 4 but begins to emerge by day 7, accounting for previous reports (based on embryonic expression) of advillin's specificity to sensory neurons. These results indicate that caution is warranted in interpreting previous studies in which advillin-driven genomic editing is either constitutive or performed after postnatal day 4.

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AnimalsAxonsCells, CulturedGanglia, SpinalIntegrasesMaleMice, Inbred C57BLMicrofilament ProteinsNeural CrestSensory Receptor CellsAvil protein, mouseCre recombinaseIntegrasesMicrofilament Proteinsadvillinautonomic neuronsenteric neuronsparasympathetic neuronssensory neuronssympathetic neurons

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PMID30221190
PMCPMC6135988
OpenAlexW2889945919

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