ArticleCell reports2020
Knocking Out Non-muscle Myosin II in Retinal Ganglion Cells Promotes Long-Distance Optic Nerve Regeneration.
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- Technological advances in axonal regeneration and structural plasticity: optogenetics, single-cell omics, and tissue clearing.Frontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2026Review
- Ngn2 and Isl1-mediated astrocyte-to-neuron conversion in vivo promotes functional recovery after spinal cord injury.Cell reports. Medicine · 2025Article
- Targeting and anchoring the mechanosensitive ion channel Piezo to facilitate its inhibition of axon regeneration.PLoS genetics · 2025Article
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- The Role of Methylation Modification in Neural Injury and Repair.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
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- Roles of Kdm6a and Kdm6b in Regulation of Mammalian Neural Regeneration.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025Article
- Non-muscle myosin II inhibition at the site of axon injury increases axon regeneration.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Optic Nerve Crush Does Not Induce Retinal Ganglion Cell Loss in the Contralateral Eye.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2025Article
- Actomyosin-II protects axons from degeneration induced by mild mechanical stress.The Journal of cell biology · 2024Article
- Lhx2 promotes axon regeneration of adult retinal ganglion cells and rescues neurodegeneration in mouse models of glaucoma.Cell reports. Medicine · 2024Article
- Injectable, Antioxidative, and Tissue-Adhesive Nanocomposite Hydrogel as a Potential Treatment for Inner Retina Injuries.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2024Article
- Histone methyltransferase Ezh2 coordinates mammalian axon regeneration via regulation of key regenerative pathways.The Journal of clinical investigation · 2024Article
- Knockdown of Porf-2 restores visual function after optic nerve crush injury.Cell death & disease · 2023Article
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Abstract
In addition to altered gene expression, pathological cytoskeletal dynamics in the axon are another key intrinsic barrier for axon regeneration in the central nervous system (CNS). Here, we show that knocking out myosin IIA and IIB (myosin IIA/B) in retinal ganglion cells alone, either before or after optic nerve crush, induces significant optic nerve regeneration. Combined Lin28a overexpression and myosin IIA/B knockout lead to an additive promoting effect and long-distance axon regeneration. Immunostaining, RNA sequencing, and western blot analyses reveal that myosin II deletion does not affect known axon regeneration signaling pathways or the expression of regeneration-associated genes. Instead, it abolishes the retraction bulb formation and significantly enhances the axon extension efficiency. The study provides clear evidence that directly targeting neuronal cytoskeleton is sufficient to induce significant CNS axon regeneration and that combining altered gene expression in the soma and modified cytoskeletal dynamics in the axon is a promising approach for long-distance CNS axon regeneration.
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