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Principles of Axon Guidance • Chemoaffinity Hypothesis – the specificity of wiring is based on recognition of chemical cues • Axons reach their targets in a series of discrete steps • Different cells respond to the same guidance cues in different ways • Chemical cues exist at many points along the axon guidance pathway e.g the optic tectum and optic tract 1 How are axons guided to their targets? 2 How does an axon find its way? Signposts are everywhere 3 An axon senses short and long-range attractant and repellent cues 4 An overview of axon guidance molecules • extracellular matrix proteins, cadherins, immunoglobins are involved in cell-contact mediated adhesion • Four conserved families of axon guidance cues – netrins – slits – semaphorins – Ephrins (last time) • Netrins, slits and some semaphorins are secreted • Ephrins and some semaphorins are membrane bound • netrins can act as primarily as attractants • slits, semaphorins and ephrins act primarily as repellants • for each cue there is one or more transmembrane receptor 5 Extracellular matrix adhesion: short-range attraction 6 Growth cones ‘adhere’ to extracellular matrix proteins 7 Cell-surface adhesion: short range attraction (includes fasciculation) 8 Cadherins and immunoglobulins mediate cell adhesion 1. Dissociate neurons will aggregate together 2. Cells expressing cadherins will aggregate together 3. Cadherins and immunoglobulins have one transmembrane domain 9 Properties of cadherin (immunoglobin) recognition 1) 2) 3) 4) Molecules on different cells recognize each other Different combinations can recognize each other Some cadherins bind in a calcium-dependent manner 100s of molecules in these families 10 Chemoattraction: Short or long range attractant 11 Isolating an attractant from the spinal cord Commissural neurons in the spinal cord are attracted to the floorplate Culture floorplate + spinal neurons Roof plate time=0 Commissural neuron time=1hr Floor plate 0 125 250 375mm Commissural neurons extend ventrally and then toward floor plate, if within 250mm from the floor plate 12 Isolating an attractant from the spinal cord Dissect 1000s of chick brains, fractionate proteins What protein makes axons extend toward it? Identified a molecule called netrin that is secreted By the floorplate 13 Netrins mediate short and long-range attraction • Netrins are bifunctional molecules, attracting some axons and repelling others. • The receptors that mediate the attractive and repulsive effects of netrins are also highly conserved. • Growth cone attraction involves the transmembrane receptors of the DCC family. • Repulsion involves the transmembrane receptors of the UNC-5 family. 14 Netrins at the midline guide axons in worms, flies and vertebrates Attractive and repulsive PKA mediates attraction 15 Contact Inhibition: short-range repulsion Chemorepulsion: short or long-range repulsion 16 Three families of axon guidance molecules that mediate repulsion 1) Ephrins (last time) 2) Semaphorins 3) Slits 17 Semaphorins • Family contains over 20 members • Best characterised function of semaphorins is in axon repulsion • 2 distinct classes of semaphorin receptors identified • Neuropilins • Plexins 18 Semaphorins cause repulsion and growth cone collapse Semaphorins can be secreted or membrane-bound 19 Semaphorins can be repulsive or attractive Expt: Neurons extend their axons toward or away from guidance cues SEMA is ligand that causes repulsion, but SEMA + cGMP causes attraction -SEMA + SEMA repulsion attraction + cGMP Combinations of factors can produce novel responses 20 Central Nervous system of Drosophila embryo • Neurons make railroad tracks • Some neurons are ipsilateral, • Others cross the midline and are contralateral 21 Identifying an axon guidance molecule and its receptor Expt: screen mutant embryos abnormal CNS patterning Results: Robo and slit are necessary to repel axons from the midline Many expts later… Slit is a repulsive guidance cue Secreted at the midline Robo is receptor on axon that recognizes slit 22 Slits • Slit is repellent ligand • Slit has a role in axon guidance at the midline. • Receptor (Robo) is expressed by axons that run longitudinally and never cross the midline. • In Robo mutants axons freely cross the midline. • Commissural axons up-regulate Robo after they have crossed the midline 23 Summary of axon guidance molecules and their receptors 24 Principles • Axon guidance molecules can be secreted or membrane-tethered • Receptors for guidance cues have one transmembrane domain • The line between receptor and ligand is blurry “bi-directional signaling” • The same guidance cue can mediate attraction or repulsion • Same guidance cues are used over and over for targeting axons • Guidance molecules are conserved in many organisms 25