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JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY
Volume 196, Issue 3, Pages 337-344Publisher
ROCKEFELLER UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201111127
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- Minerva Foundation
- National Institutes of Health [NS50220, NS37475]
- National Multiple Sclerosis Society [RG3618]
- Israel Science Foundation
- Max Planck Society
- Moskowitz Center for Bio-Nano Imaging at the Weizmann Institute
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [21590214] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Myelinating Schwann cells regulate the localization of ion channels on the surface of the axons they ensheath. This function depends on adhesion complexes that are positioned at specific membrane domains along the myelin unit. Here we show that the precise localization of internodal proteins depends on the expression of the cytoskeletal adapter protein 4.1G in Schwann cells. Deletion of 4.1G in mice resulted in aberrant distribution of both glial adhesion molecules and axonal proteins that were present along the internodes. In wild-type nerves, juxtaparanodal proteins (i.e., Kv1 channels, Caspr2, and TAG-1) were concentrated throughout the internodes in a double strand that flanked paranodal junction components (i.e., Caspr, contactin, and NF155), and apposes the inner mesaxon of the myelin sheath. In contrast, in 4.1G(-/-) mice, these proteins piled up at the juxtaparanodal region or aggregated along the internodes. These findings suggest that protein 4.1G contributes to the organization of the internodal axolemma by targeting and/or maintaining glial transmembrane proteins along the axoglial interface.
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