Bicknell, BA;
Pujic, Z;
Dayan, P;
Goodhill, GJ;
(2018)
Control of neurite growth and guidance by an inhibitory cell-body signal.
PLoS Computational Biology
, 14
(6)
, Article e1006218. 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006218.
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Abstract
The development of a functional nervous system requires tight control of neurite growth and guidance by extracellular chemical cues. Neurite growth is astonishingly sensitive to shallow concentration gradients, but a widely observed feature of both growth and guidance regulation, with important consequences for development and regeneration, is that both are only elicited over the same relatively narrow range of concentrations. Here we show that all these phenomena can be explained within one theoretical framework. We first test long-standing explanations for the suppression of the trophic effects of nerve growth factor at high concentrations, and find they are contradicted by experiment. Instead we propose a new hypothesis involving inhibitory signalling among the cell bodies, and then extend this hypothesis to show how both growth and guidance can be understood in terms of a common underlying signalling mechanism. This new model for the first time unifies several key features of neurite growth regulation, quantitatively explains many aspects of experimental data, and makes new predictions about unknown details of developmental signalling.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | Control of neurite growth and guidance by an inhibitory cell-body signal |
Location: | United States |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006218 |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006218 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | © 2018 Bicknell et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
Keywords: | Neurites, Signal inhibition, Ganglia, Signaling networks, Collagens, Fasciculations, Cell signaling, Cytokines |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10051504 |
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