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ArticleeLife2021

Endoglycan plays a role in axon guidance by modulating cell adhesion.

Thomas Baeriswyl, Alexandre Dumoulin, Martina Schaettin, Georgia Tsapara, Vera Niederkofler, Denise Helbling, Evelyn Avilés, Jeannine A Frei, Nicole H Wilson, Matthias Gesemann and 2 more

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Article in eLife, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 34% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Thomas Baeriswyl *Department of Molecular Life Sciences and Neuroscience Center Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Alexandre Dumoulin *Department of Molecular Life Sciences and Neuroscience Center Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-2420-6877
Martina Schaettin *Department of Molecular Life Sciences and Neuroscience Center Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Georgia Tsapara *Department of Molecular Life Sciences and Neuroscience Center Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Vera NiederkoflerDepartment of Molecular Life Sciences and Neuroscience Center Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Denise HelblingDepartment of Molecular Life Sciences and Neuroscience Center Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Evelyn AvilésDepartment of Molecular Life Sciences and Neuroscience Center Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Jeannine A FreiDepartment of Molecular Life Sciences and Neuroscience Center Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Nicole H WilsonDepartment of Molecular Life Sciences and Neuroscience Center Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Matthias GesemannDepartment of Molecular Life Sciences and Neuroscience Center Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Beat KunzDepartment of Molecular Life Sciences and Neuroscience Center Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Esther T StoeckliDepartment of Molecular Life Sciences and Neuroscience Center Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-8485-0648
University of Zurich · CH

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Axon navigation depends on the interactions between guidance molecules along the trajectory and specific receptors on the growth cone. However, our in vitro and in vivo studies on the role of Endoglycan demonstrate that in addition to specific guidance cue - receptor interactions, axon guidance depends on fine-tuning of cell-cell adhesion. Endoglycan, a sialomucin, plays a role in axon guidance in the central nervous system of chicken embryos, but it is neither an axon guidance cue nor a receptor. Rather, Endoglycan acts as a negative regulator of molecular interactions based on evidence from in vitro experiments demonstrating reduced adhesion of growth cones. In the absence of Endoglycan, commissural axons fail to properly navigate the midline of the spinal cord. Taken together, our in vivo and in vitro results support the hypothesis that Endoglycan acts as a negative regulator of cell-cell adhesion in commissural axon guidance.

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AnimalsAxon GuidanceAxonsCell AdhesionChick EmbryoGrowth ConesHEK293 CellsHumansMucinsRNA InterferenceSpinal CordendoglycanMucinschickencommissural axonsfloor platelive imagingneurosciencePodocalyxin-like 2sialomucin

Identifiers

PMID33650489
PMCPMC7946425
OpenAlexW3134355012

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