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Article Dans Une Revue Nature Année : 2017

Floor-plate-derived netrin-1 is dispensable for commissural axon guidance

J.A. Moreno-Bravo
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S.R. Puiggros
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Q. Rappeneau
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N. Rama
  • Fonction : Auteur
P. Vieugue
  • Fonction : Auteur
A. Bernet
A. Chedotal
  • Fonction : Auteur

Résumé

Netrin-1 is an evolutionarily conserved, secreted extracellular matrix protein involved in axon guidance at the central nervous system midline. Netrin-1 is expressed by cells localized at the central nervous system midline, such as those of the floor plate in vertebrate embryos. Growth cone turning assays and three-dimensional gel diffusion assays have shown that netrin-1 can attract commissural axons. Loss-of-function experiments further demonstrated that commissural axon extension to the midline is severely impaired in the absence of netrin-1 (refs 3, 7, 8, 9). Together, these data have long supported a model in which commissural axons are attracted by a netrin-1 gradient diffusing from the midline. Here we selectively ablate netrin-1 expression in floor-plate cells using a Ntn1 conditional knockout mouse line. We find that hindbrain and spinal cord commissural axons develop normally in the absence of floor-plate-derived netrin-1. Furthermore, we show that netrin-1 is highly expressed by cells in the ventricular zone, which can release netrin-1 at the pial surface where it binds to commissural axons. Notably, Ntn1 deletion from the ventricular zone phenocopies commissural axon guidance defects previously described in Ntn1-knockout mice. These results show that the classical view that attraction of commissural axons is mediated by a gradient of floor-plate-derived netrin-1 is inaccurate and that netrin-1 primarily acts locally by promoting growth cone adhesion

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hal-01795716 , version 1 (18-05-2018)

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C. Dominici, J.A. Moreno-Bravo, S.R. Puiggros, Q. Rappeneau, N. Rama, et al.. Floor-plate-derived netrin-1 is dispensable for commissural axon guidance. Nature, 2017, 545 (7654), pp.350 - 354. ⟨10.1038/nature22331⟩. ⟨hal-01795716⟩
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