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ArticleCell reports2024

Retinal neurons establish mosaic patterning by excluding homotypic somata from their dendritic territories.

Christopher Kozlowski, Sarah E Hadyniak, Jeremy N Kay

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Article in Cell reports, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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Christopher KozlowskiDepartments of Neurobiology, Ophthalmology, and Cell Biology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27710, USA.
Sarah E HadyniakDepartments of Neurobiology, Ophthalmology, and Cell Biology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27710, USA.
Jeremy N KayDepartments of Neurobiology, Ophthalmology, and Cell Biology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27710, USA. Electronic address: jeremy.kay@duke.edu.

Funding

VISION RESEARCHP30EY005722 · NEI · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI Goldis Malek · 1985 to 2026
$19.3M
Molecular control of neuronal position during retinal developmentR01EY024694 · NEI · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI KAY, JEREMY N · 2014 to 2018
$2.0M
Precise assembly of retinal circuitry through rejection of inappropriate synaptic partnersR01EY031445 · NEI · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI KAY, JEREMY N · 2021 to 2024
$1.8M
NEI NIH HHS P30 EY005722NEI NIH HHS R01 EY024694NEI NIH HHS R01 EY031445
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In vertebrate retina, individual neurons of the same type are distributed regularly across the tissue in a pattern known as a mosaic. Establishment of mosaics during development requires cell-cell repulsion among homotypic neurons, but the mechanisms underlying this repulsion remain unknown. Here, we show that two mouse retinal cell types, OFF and ON starburst amacrine cells, establish mosaic spacing by using their dendritic arbors to repel neighboring homotypic somata. Using transgenic tools and single-cell labeling, we identify a developmental period when starburst somata are contacted by neighboring starburst dendrites; these serve to exclude somata from settling within the neighbor's dendritic territory. Dendrite-soma exclusion is mediated by MEGF10, a cell-surface molecule required for starburst mosaic patterning. Our results implicate dendrite-soma exclusion as a key mechanism underlying starburst mosaic spacing and raise the possibility that this could be a general mechanism for mosaic patterning across many cell types and species.

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DendritesAmacrine CellsAnimalsMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMice, TransgenicMosaicismRetinaRetinal Neuronsamacrine cellcell-cell recognitionCP: Neurosciencedendritedifferentiationmorphogenesismouseneural developmentrepulsionretinatiling

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PMID39133615
PMCPMC11440617

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