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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 4, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3740
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- KAKENHI [17023019, 22022040, 24111515, 23592161, 24110503, 23700440]
- Niigata University
- Ministry of the Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan [4300]
- JSPS
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [24111515, 23592161, 23700440, 23500422, 24650162, 25860057, 24110503, 22240040, 11J40157] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Extracellular factors that inhibit axon growth and intrinsic factors that promote it affect neural regeneration. Therapies targeting any single gene have not yet simultaneously optimized both types of factors. Chondroitin sulphate (CS), a glycosaminoglycan, is the most abundant extracellular inhibitor of axon growth. Here we show that mice carrying a gene knockout for CS N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferase-1 (T1), a key enzyme in CS biosynthesis, recover more completely from spinal cord injury than wild-type mice and even chondroitinase ABC-treated mice. Notably, synthesis of heparan sulphate (HS), a glycosaminoglycan promoting axonal growth, is also upregulated in TI knockout mice because HS-synthesis enzymes are induced in the mutant neurons. Moreover, chondroitinase ABC treatment never induces HS upregulation. Taken together, our results indicate that regulation of a single gene, T1, mediates excellent recovery from spinal cord injury by optimizing counteracting effectors of axon regeneration-an extracellular inhibitor of CS and intrinsic promoters, namely, HS-synthesis enzymes.
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