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NEURON
Volume 102, Issue 3, Pages 602-+Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2019.02.034
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- European Research Council [335590]
- Giovanni Armenise-Harvard Foundation
- European Research Council (ERC) [335590] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
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The rich functional diversity of the nervous system is founded in the specific connectivity of the underlying neural circuitry. Neurons are often preprogrammed to respond to multiple axon guidance signals because they use sequential guideposts along their pathways, but this necessitates a strict spatiotemporal regulation of intracellular signaling to ensure the cues are detected in the correct order. We performed a mouse mutagenesis screen and identified the Rho GTPase antagonist p190RhoGAP as a critical regulator of motor axon guidance. Rather than acting as a compulsory signal relay, p190RhoGAP uses a non-conventional GAP-independent mode to transiently suppress attraction to Netrin-1 while motor axons exit the spinal cord. Once in the periphery, a subset of axons requires p190RhoGAP-mediated inhibition of Rho signaling to target specific muscles. Thus, the multifunctional activity of p190RhoGAP emerges from its modular design. Our findings reveal a cellintrinsic gate that filters conflicting signals, establishing temporal windows of signal detection.
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