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ArticleDevelopment (Cambridge, England)2024

A cell-autonomous role for primary cilium-mediated signaling in long-range commissural axon guidance.

Alexandre Dumoulin, Nicole H Wilson, Kerry L Tucker, Esther T Stoeckli

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Article in Development (Cambridge, England), 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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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. The nociceptor primary cilium.Brain : a journal of neurology · 2026
    Review
  2. Primary cilia and neural computation.Journal of biomedical science · 2026
    Review
  3. Review
  4. Identification of New Ciliary Signaling Pathways in the Brain and Insights into Neurological Disorders.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
    Article
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  7. Neuronal guidance behaviours: the primary cilium perspective.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2025
    Review
  8. The Nociceptor Primary Cilium Contributes to Mechanical Nociceptive Threshold and Inflammatory and Neuropathic Pain.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024
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  10. Uncovering cilia function in glial development.Annals of human genetics · 2024
    Review
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Alexandre DumoulinDepartment of Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-2420-6877
Nicole H WilsonDepartment of Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland.
Kerry L TuckerUniversity of New England, College of Osteopathic Medicine, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Center for Excellence in the Neurosciences, Biddeford, ME 04005, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7671-8690
Esther T StoeckliDepartment of Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-8485-0648

Funding

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft SFB 488Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen ForschungSchweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung 31003_146676, 310030_185247
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ciliopathies are characterized by the absence or dysfunction of primary cilia. Despite the fact that cognitive impairments are a common feature of ciliopathies, how cilia dysfunction affects neuronal development has not been characterized in detail. Here, we show that primary cilium-mediated signaling is required cell-autonomously by neurons during neural circuit formation. In particular, a functional primary cilium is crucial during axonal pathfinding for the switch in responsiveness of axons at a choice point or intermediate target. Using different animal models and in vivo, ex vivo and in vitro experiments, we provide evidence for a crucial role of primary cilium-mediated signaling in long-range axon guidance. The primary cilium on the cell body of commissural neurons transduces long-range guidance signals sensed by growth cones navigating an intermediate target. In extension of our finding that Shh is required for the rostral turn of post-crossing commissural axons, we suggest a model implicating the primary cilium in Shh signaling upstream of a transcriptional change of axon guidance receptors, which in turn mediate the repulsive response to floorplate-derived Shh shown by post-crossing commissural axons.

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Axon GuidanceAxonsCiliaHedgehog ProteinsSignal TransductionAnimalsGrowth ConesMiceNeuronsHedgehog ProteinsShh protein, mouseArl13bAxon guidanceChickenCommissural neuronsIft88In ovo RNAiMidline crossingMousePrimary ciliumSonic hedgehog

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PMID39157903
PMCPMC11423920

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