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SlitC-PlexinA1 mediates iterative inhibition for orderly passage of spinal commissural axons through the floor plate

  1. Hugo Ducuing
  2. Thibault Gardette
  3. Aurora Pignata
  4. Karine Kindbeiter
  5. Muriel Bozon
  6. Olivier Thoumine
  7. Céline Delloye-Bourgeois
  8. Servane Tauszig-Delamasure
  9. Valerie Castellani  Is a corresponding author
  1. Institut NeuroMyoGène - CNRS UMR 5310 - INSERM U1217 de Lyon- UCBL Lyon 1, France
  2. University of Bordeaux, France
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.63205
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  1. Hugo Ducuing
  2. Thibault Gardette
  3. Aurora Pignata
  4. Karine Kindbeiter
  5. Muriel Bozon
  6. Olivier Thoumine
  7. Céline Delloye-Bourgeois
  8. Servane Tauszig-Delamasure
  9. Valerie Castellani
(2020)
SlitC-PlexinA1 mediates iterative inhibition for orderly passage of spinal commissural axons through the floor plate
eLife 9:e63205.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.63205
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Abstract

Spinal commissural axon navigation across the midline in the floor plate requires repulsive forces from local Slit repellents. The long-held view is that Slits push growth cones forward and prevent them from turning back once they became sensitized to these cues after midline crossing. We analyzed with fluorescent reporters Slits distribution and FP glia morphology. We observed clusters of Slit-N and Slit-C fragments decorating a complex architecture of glial basal process ramifications. We found that PC2 proprotein convertase activity contributes to this ligands pattern. Next, we studied Slit-C acting via PlexinA1 receptor shared with another FP repellent, the Semaphorin3B, through generation of a mouse model baring PlexinA1Y1815F mutation abrogating SlitC but not Sema3B responsiveness, manipulations in the chicken embryo and ex vivo live imaging. This revealed a guidance mechanism by which SlitC constantly limits growth cone exploration, imposing ordered and forward-directed progression through aligned corridors formed by FP basal ramifications.

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  1. Hugo Ducuing

    Institut NeuroMyoGène - CNRS UMR 5310 - INSERM U1217 de Lyon- UCBL Lyon 1, Lyon, France
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  2. Thibault Gardette

    Institut NeuroMyoGène - CNRS UMR 5310 - INSERM U1217 de Lyon- UCBL Lyon 1, Lyon, France
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  3. Aurora Pignata

    Institut NeuroMyoGène - CNRS UMR 5310 - INSERM U1217 de Lyon- UCBL Lyon 1, Lyon, France
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  4. Karine Kindbeiter

    Institut NeuroMyoGène - CNRS UMR 5310 - INSERM U1217 de Lyon- UCBL Lyon 1, Lyon, France
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  5. Muriel Bozon

    Institut NeuroMyoGène - CNRS UMR 5310 - INSERM U1217 de Lyon- UCBL Lyon 1, Lyon, France
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  6. Olivier Thoumine

    Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
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  7. Céline Delloye-Bourgeois

    Institut NeuroMyoGène - CNRS UMR 5310 - INSERM U1217 de Lyon- UCBL Lyon 1, Lyon, France
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  8. Servane Tauszig-Delamasure

    Institut NeuroMyoGène - CNRS UMR 5310 - INSERM U1217 de Lyon- UCBL Lyon 1, Lyon, France
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  9. Valerie Castellani

    Institut NeuroMyoGène - CNRS UMR 5310 - INSERM U1217 de Lyon- UCBL Lyon 1, Lyon, France
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Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-11-IDEX-0007)

  • Valerie Castellani

Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale (Label team)

  • Valerie Castellani

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

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  1. Paola Bovolenta, CSIC-UAM, Spain

Publication history

  1. Received: September 17, 2020
  2. Accepted: December 18, 2020
  3. Accepted Manuscript published: December 21, 2020 (version 1)
  4. Version of Record published: December 31, 2020 (version 2)

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© 2020, Ducuing et al.

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  1. Hugo Ducuing
  2. Thibault Gardette
  3. Aurora Pignata
  4. Karine Kindbeiter
  5. Muriel Bozon
  6. Olivier Thoumine
  7. Céline Delloye-Bourgeois
  8. Servane Tauszig-Delamasure
  9. Valerie Castellani
(2020)
SlitC-PlexinA1 mediates iterative inhibition for orderly passage of spinal commissural axons through the floor plate
eLife 9:e63205.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.63205

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