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ArticleFrontiers in cell and developmental biology2025

Slit-Robo signaling supports motor neuron avoidance of the spinal cord midline through DCC antagonism and other mechanisms.

Kelsey R Nickerson, Ferass M Sammoura, Yonghong Zhou, Alexander Jaworski

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Article in Frontiers in cell and developmental biology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Kelsey R Nickerson *Department of Neuroscience, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States.
Ferass M Sammoura *Department of Neuroscience, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States.
Yonghong ZhouDepartment of Neuroscience, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States.
Alexander JaworskiDepartment of Neuroscience, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States.

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Regulation of Nervous System Wiring by the Robo3 Axon Guidance Receptor and its Ligand NELL2R01NS095908 · NINDS · BROWN UNIVERSITY · PI JAWORSKI, ALEXANDER · 2017 to 2021
$2.2M
Axon guidance through the bifunctional cue WFIKKN2 and its receptorsR01NS123290 · NINDS · BROWN UNIVERSITY · PI Alexander Jaworski · 2022 to 2026
$2.2M
Mechanisms of Robo1/2-mediated motor neuron cell body and axon positioning relative to the spinal cord midlineF31NS108671 · NINDS · BROWN UNIVERSITY · PI NICKERSON, KELSEY R · 2019 to 2020
$91k
NINDS NIH HHS F31 NS108671NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS095908NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS123290
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Abstract

Axon pathfinding and neuronal migration are orchestrated by attractive and repulsive guidance cues. In the mouse spinal cord, repulsion from Slit proteins through Robo family receptors and attraction to Netrin-1, mediated by the receptor DCC, control many aspects of neural circuit formation. This includes motor neuron wiring, where Robos help prevent both motor neuron cell bodies and axons from aberrantly crossing the spinal cord midline. These functions had been ascribed to Robo signaling being required to counter DCC-mediated attraction to Netrin-1 at the midline, either by mediating repulsion from midline-derived Slits or by silencing DCC signaling. However, the role of DCC in promoting motor neuron and axon midline crossing had not been directly tested. Here, we used

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