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Lecture 12 (6) - Mechanisms of Axonal Pathfinding Flashcards

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Attractive signal

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microfilaments and microtubules accumulate at the contact site

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Growth cone at tip

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webby
• different regions, filopodia stabilized by actin
–> growth cone to attractive

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Mechanisms of axonal pathfinding

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  • stereotropism
  • haptotaxis
  • chemotropism
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Stereotropism

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physical barriers
• axons move around physical objects
• some artificial substrates
• repair tissues/nerves

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Haptotaxis

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movement along substrate bound molecules
• most common
• bound to cell surface

  • molecules of the extracellular matrix and cell surface molecules
  • selective fasciculation of axons : labelled pathways hypothesis
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Chemotropism

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diffusabe factors

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  1. Stereotropism - physical barriers
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  • collagen fibers
  • plastic barrier
  • artificial substrate
  • tunnel
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  1. Haptotaxis - movement of growth cones along substrate bound molecules
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ECM: glycoproteins and proteoglycans

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Cell adhesion proteins control

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mobility and guide toward movement
• cell-cell adhesion
• cell-matrix adhesion

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Cell-cell adhesion

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  • classical cadherins (E, N, P, VE), homophilic binding, associated with cytoskeleton (actin filaments) via catenins
  • Ig family members (N-CAM, ICAM), homo- and heterophilic binding
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Cell-matrix adhesion

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  • Integrins (many types), heterophilic binding associated with cytoskeletion (actin filaments), via talin, paxillin, filamin, etc.
  • transmembrane proteoglycans (syndecans), heterophilic binding
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To find molecules that axons like, use

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cell culture assays

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Cell culture as guidance molecules - assays are used for identifying
1. cell-adhesion assay

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• can the neuron stick to other cells or a given substrate

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Cell culture assays for identifying guidance

2. stripe assay

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• petri dish - different areas with different molecules
• neuron in, where its axon grows =
which stripe is attractive or repulsive

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Haptotaxis I - ECM-molecules facilitate or inhibit axonal growth

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CSPG - chondroitin-sulfatproteoglycan
• dorsal roof plate of spinal cord
• when growth cone reaches CSPG, is repulsed and turns away

laminin attracts

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Haptotaxis II - cell adhesion molecules are involved in axonal outgrowth, fasciculation and pathfinding

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most growth cones grow on the surface of other axons or cells
• only if 2 molecules recognize each other
• floor plate instructs axons to grow along (cross midline) or repulses
• the midline is transient in embryos

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Midline - axons express

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axonin1 on surface

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Cells of the floor plate have

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NRCAm - both adhesions and bind to each other

• axon guided to cross midline

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Incubate floor plate with

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antibodies = 1 or 2 can’t pass

• antibodies block sites where 1 or other cross = can’t bind

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  1. Selective fasciculation
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the “labeled pathways” hypothesis
• guidance on axon
• G - neurons grow where nothing else arond axon
• recognizes molecules on axon P
• grows to decision point and sees P missing
–> stalls
= absence of whole axon tracks

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Fasciculation is affected in

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fasciclin II mutant flies

• FasII is expressed on pioneer axons of longitudinal tract

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  1. Chemotropism
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guidance by diffusable factors
• repulsive factors lead to growth cone collapse
• collapsin = growth cone turns away and collapses
• growth cone collapses, grows, tries again

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Collapsin

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growth cone turns away and collapses

• collapses, grows, tries again

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Pathfinding of the DRG-axons is based on

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repulsive factors
• spinal cord
• DRG cells grow straight bc repulsed by secreted substance

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  1. Chemotropism
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  • NGF - nerve growth facctor
  • all axons like NGF
  • follows this diffusible factor
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Both in vertebrates and invertebrates the CNS midline plays an important role in

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organizing the axonal scaffold
• vertebrates - floor plate = epithelial cells, transient
• in embryo, guides axons in midline (attracts/repulses)
• cross = turn ant/post

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Commissural

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crosses ventral midline

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Ipsilateral

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doesn’t cross ventral midline

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Netrin is expressed in the

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CNS midline of Drosophila
• CNS midline - explant of growth plate to Dci
• Dci attracted to plate over distance
–> shows diffusible factor (later called netrin)

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Netrin exists in

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vertebrates and invertebrates

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In Drosophila, the ventral midline derives from the

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mesectoderm

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3 types of midline precursors give rise to the

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unpaired midline neurons and glia

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Axon scaffold

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commissural axons cross betwen midline glial cells and neural cells
• 8 midline precursors per segment (gastrulation –> germ band elongation)
• 16 during division
• midline glial cells separate fasic. into ant and post commissural

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Midline cells contribute to the

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formation of the axonal scaffold

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The ventral midline of crustaceans derive from

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a medial column of cells that separates the neuroectoderm
• crustaceans - netrin in midline for axonal patterning
• no bilateral midline, have unpaired medial midline bc no welerm (?) band forms

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Despite the different origin, individual midline progenitorsmight be

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homologous in malocostraccans and insects

• similar position of midline precursors and cells

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The ventral midline epithelium is

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a transient structure that does not express any neural genes
• midline in centi and milli
• transient midline in spiders (like vertebrates)
• spiders split into 2 –> dorsal, come together when yolk into abdomen
= transient midline

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Commissural axons cross the ventral midline despite

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the gap between the 2 halves
• the axonal guidance molecule Netrin is expressed in the epithelial ventral midline
• commissural crosses on Netrin-positive cells

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Netrin is required for

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axonal guidance at the ventral midline

• same phenotype in Drosophila, spider, and in vertebrates - reduction of commissural axons

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Pattern of axons at the ventral midline of Drosophila

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• anterior and posterior commissures connected by longitudinal tracts

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A large-scale screen for axonal pathfinding mutants resulted in the discovery of the

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midline guidance system in Drosophila
• blue = midline glial cells
• slit = collapsed at midline
• Robo = roundabout, axons to midline, cross, go back

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Robo

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roundabout

• axons to midline, cross, go back

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The commissures are absent in

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commissureless mutants
• in axons meant to cross midline, commisureless need to sort Robo to lysosomes
- not on surface growth, can’t sense repulsive (slit)
- Robo on surface of growth cone and repelled by slit = doesn’t cross

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High robo

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strongly repelled by Slit

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Low Robo

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weakly repelled by Slit

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comm ON

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Robo sorted to lysosomes

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comm OFF

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Robo delivered to growth cone

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Commissureless is expressed in axons that

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cross the midline
• comm sort Robo (receives repulsive Slit)
• comm expressed = no Robo in growth cone
= can’t tell repulsive slit (repulse midline) –> cross midline
• comm off = high Robo expression

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Commissureless sorts Robo to

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allow midline crossing

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In vertebrates, Robo3 functions

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like comm in Drosophila
• no comm
• Robo3 represses Robo
• Robo3 expressed = Robo low = cross midline
• growth cone doesn’t recross, recognizes midline as repulsive
• Netrin attracts to CNS midline - doesn’t find Netrin attractive on other side

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The human syndrome “horizontal gaze palsy and progressive scoliosis) is associated with mutations in

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the Robo3 gene
• aberrant psilateral projections of major ascending and descending axons pathways
• failure of these axons to cross the midline in the hindbrain
• no horizontal eye movement
(can’t see sideways, only up and down)

Ips = on same side
(axons don’t cross midline in hindbrain)

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Slit activates Robo in the midline resulting in

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silencing of the netrin receptro DCC

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In vertebrates, Robo3 functions like comm in Drosophila

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• attracted to midline by Netrin
- have growth cone receptor for Netrin (dcc)
- bind Netrin and guided
• slit (repressor) in midline affects Robo in crossing
- Robo switches on and binds dcc receptor –> can’t bind attractive signal
(Robo prevents Netrin binding)
- growth cone crossed, dcc receptor no longer functional
• Robo mutant = recross
- plays role in silencing attractive signal

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Growth cones guide axons through

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the developing embryo to the target

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Soluble ans substrate bound factors guide growth cones by

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attraction and repulsion

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A complex midline guidance system leads

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commissural axons across the midline and prevents ipsilateral axons from crossing

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