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ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2021

Pioneer Axons Utilize a

Nina L Kikel-Coury, Lauren A Green, Ev L Nichols, Abigail M Zellmer, Sanjana Pai, Sam A Hedlund, Kurt C Marsden, Cody J Smith

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Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 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
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 26% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Nina L Kikel-CouryDepartment of Biological Sciences.
Lauren A GreenDepartment of Biological Sciences.
Ev L NicholsDepartment of Biological Sciences.
Abigail M ZellmerDepartment of Biological Sciences.
Sanjana PaiDepartment of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, 27695.
Sam A HedlundDepartment of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, 27695.
Kurt C MarsdenDepartment of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, 27695.
Cody J SmithDepartment of Biological Sciences csmith67@nd.edu.
University of Notre Dame · USNorth Carolina State University · USInstitute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine · IN

Funding

An Integrative approach to elucidate glial diversity and its role in brain functionalityDP2NS117177 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME · PI SMITH, CODY J. · 2019 to 2019
$2.3M
Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Acoustic Startle Threshold RegulationR01NS116354 · NINDS · NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY RALEIGH · PI MARSDEN, KURT C. · 2021 to 2025
$1.9M
NINDS NIH HHS DP2 NS117177NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS116354
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Axons navigate through the embryo to construct a functional nervous system. A missing part of the axon navigation puzzle is how a single axon traverses distinct anatomic choice points through its navigation. The dorsal root ganglia (DRG) neurons experience such choice points. First, they navigate to the dorsal root entry zone (DREZ), then halt navigation in the peripheral nervous system to invade the spinal cord, and then reinitiate navigation inside the CNS. Here, we used time-lapse super-resolution imaging in zebrafish DRG pioneer neurons to investigate how embryonic axons control their cytoskeleton to navigate to and invade at the correct anatomic position. We found that invadopodia components form in the growth cone even during filopodia-based navigation, but only stabilize when the axon is at the spinal cord entry location. Further, we show that intermediate levels of DCC and cAMP, as well as Rac1 activation, subsequently engage an axon invasion brake. Our results indicate that actin-based invadopodia components form in the growth cone and disruption of the invasion brake causes axon entry defects and results in failed behavioral responses, thereby demonstrating the importance of regulating distinct actin populations during navigational challenges.

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AnimalsAxon GuidanceDCC ReceptorGanglia, SpinalSignal TransductionZebrafishZebrafish Proteinsdcc protein, zebrafishDCC ReceptorZebrafish ProteinsDREZinvasionneuronpathfindingzebrafish

Identifiers

PMID34131031
PMCPMC8336704
OpenAlexW3167242757

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