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Dev Biol ; 455(2): 449-457, 2019 11 15.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31356769

ABSTRACT

The developing spinal cord builds a boundary between the CNS and the periphery, in the form of a basement membrane. The spinal cord basement membrane is a barrier that retains CNS neuron cell bodies, while being selectively permeable to specific axon types. Spinal motor neuron cell bodies are located in the ventral neural tube next to the floor plate and project their axons out through the basement membrane to peripheral targets. However, little is known about how spinal motor neuron cell bodies are retained inside the ventral neural tube, while their axons can exit. In previous work, we found that disruption of Slit/Robo signals caused motor neuron emigration outside the spinal cord. In the current study, we investigate how Slit/Robo signals are necessary to keep spinal motor neurons within the neural tube. Our findings show that when Slit/Robo signals were removed from motor neurons, they migrated outside the spinal cord. Furthermore, this emigration was associated with abnormal basement membrane protein expression in the ventral spinal cord. Using Robo2 and Slit2 conditional mutants, we found that motor neuron-derived Slit/Robo signals were required to set up a normal basement membrane in the spinal cord. Together, our results suggest that motor neurons produce Slit signals that are required for the basement membrane assembly to retain motor neuron cell bodies within the spinal cord.


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Basement Membrane/physiology , Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins/physiology , Motor Neurons/cytology , Nerve Tissue Proteins/physiology , Neural Tube/cytology , Receptors, Immunologic/physiology , Spinal Cord/embryology , Animals , Cell Movement , Dystroglycans/metabolism , Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins/genetics , Mice , Mutation , Nerve Tissue Proteins/genetics , Receptors, Cell Surface/genetics , Receptors, Cell Surface/physiology , Receptors, Immunologic/genetics , Signal Transduction , Spinal Cord/cytology , Roundabout Proteins
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