Journal
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 36, Issue 49, Pages 12351-12367Publisher
SOC NEUROSCIENCE
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3854-15.2016
Keywords
adhesion GPCR; Gpr126; nerve injury; remyelination; Schwann cell
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Funding
- National Institutes of Health (NIH) [F31NS094004]
- Swiss National Science Foundation
- NIH [DE022000, NS082446, NS079445]
- Muscular Dystrophy Association [MDA293295]
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Schwann cells (SCs) are essential for proper peripheral nerve development and repair, although the mechanisms regulating these processes are incompletely understood. We previously showed that the adhesion G protein-coupled receptor Gpr126/Adgrg6 is essential for SC development and myelination. Interestingly, the expression of Gpr126 is maintained in adult SCs, suggestive of a function in the mature nerve. We therefore investigated the role of Gpr126 in nerve repair by studying an inducible SC-specific Gpr126 knock-out mouse model. Here, we show that remyelination is severely delayed after nerve-crush injury. Moreover, we also observe noncell-autonomous defects in macrophage recruitment and axon regeneration in injured nerves following loss of Gpr126 in SCs. This work demonstrates that Gpr126 has critical SC-autonomous and SC-nonautonomous functions in remyelination and peripheral nerve repair.
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