Calcium signalling in the guidance of nerve growth by netrin-1

Kyonsoo Hong, Makoto Nishiyama, John Henley, Marc Tessier-Lavigne and Mu-ming Poo ()
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Kyonsoo Hong: University of California at San Diego
Makoto Nishiyama: University of California at San Diego
John Henley: University of California at San Diego
Marc Tessier-Lavigne: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California at San Francisco
Mu-ming Poo: University of California at San Diego

Nature, 2000, vol. 403, issue 6765, 93-98

Abstract: Abstract Pathfinding by growing axons in the developing nervous system is guided by diffusible or bound factors that attract or repel the axonal growth cone1,2. The cytoplasmic signalling mechanisms that trigger the responses of the growth cone to guidance factors are mostly unknown3. Previous studies have shown that the level and temporal patterns of cytoplasmic Ca2+ can regulate the rate of growth-cone extension in vitro4,5,6,7,8 and in vivo9. Here we report that Ca2+ also mediates the turning behaviour of the growth cones of cultured Xenopus neurons that are induced by an extracellular gradient of netrin-1, an established diffusible guidance factor in vivo1,10. The netrin-1-induced turning response depends on Ca2+ influx through plasma membrane Ca2+ channels, as well as Ca2+-induced Ca2+ release from cytoplasmic stores11. Reduction of Ca2+ signals by blocking either of these two Ca2+ sources converted the netrin-1-induced response from attraction to repulsion. Activation of Ca2+-induced Ca2+ release from internal stores with a gradient of ryanodine in the absence of netrin-1 was sufficient to trigger either attractive or repulsive responses, depending on the ryanodine concentration used. These results support the model that cytoplasmic Ca2+ signals mediate growth-cone guidance by netrin-1, and different patterns of Ca2+ elevation trigger attractive and repulsive turning responses.

Date: 2000
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