在体内,接触抑制运动控制神经的定向迁移
Carlos Carmona-Fontaine1, Helen K Matthews, Sei Kuriyama
1Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
Nature
|December 17, 2008
概括
接触抑制运动,细胞行为,观察到神经细胞在体内和体外. 这种由非正规的Wnt信号调节的现象解释了定向细胞迁移,并防止了入侵.
科学领域:
- 发育生物学 发展生物学
- 细胞生物学 细胞生物学
- 癌症生物学 癌症生物学
背景情况:
- 接触阻断运动 (CIL) 描述了细胞在接触时如何停止和改变方向.
- CIL的失败与恶性侵袭有关,但其体内发生和分子基础仍然不清楚.
研究的目的:
- 研究神经细胞中CIL的体内发生和分子机制.
- 确定CIL在定向细胞迁移和组织入侵中的作用.
主要方法:
- 在体内和体外神经细胞迁移的实时成像.
- 扰乱非正规的Wnt信号通路.
- 细胞与细胞接触动态和突起回收的分析.
主要成果:
- 神经细胞在体内和体外都表现出CIL,在接触时收回突出并改变方向.
- CIL是神经细胞相互作用的特异性;他们侵入其他细胞类型.
- 抑制非正规的Wnt信号破坏了CIL和定向迁移.
结论:
- 这项研究提供了第一个CIL的体内证据.
- 神经细胞中的CIL是由非正规的Wnt信号传递和接触点的RhoA激活介导的.
- CIL解释了连贯的群体迁移,并强调了Wnt信号在防止入侵方面发挥的新角色.
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