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CELL
Volume 156, Issue 1-2, Pages 277-290Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2013.11.044
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- European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant
- German Research Foundation [SI 746/9-1, TRR43]
- Lister Institute, an International Reintegration Grant
- EMBO Long-Term Fellowship
- German Research Foundation Research Center Molecular Physiology of the Brain (CMPB)
- ERC Advanced Investigator Grant
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/F023243/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Wellcome Trust [102836/Z/13/Z] Funding Source: researchfish
- BBSRC [BB/F023243/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Central nervous system myelin is a multilayered membrane sheath generated by oligodendrocytes for rapid impulse propagation. However, the underlying mechanisms of myelin wrapping have remained unclear. Using an integrative approach of live imaging, electron microscopy, and genetics, we show that new myelin membranes are incorporated adjacent to the axon at the innermost tongue. Simultaneously, newly formed layers extend laterally, ultimately leading to the formation of a set of closely apposed paranodal loops. An elaborated system of cytoplasmic channels within the growing myelin sheath enables membrane trafficking to the leading edge. Most of these channels close with ongoing development but can be reopened in adults by experimentally raising phosphatidylinositol-(3,4,5)-triphosphate levels, which reinitiates myelin growth. Our model can explain assembly of myelin as a multilayered structure, abnormal myelin outfoldings in neurological disease, and plasticity of myelin biogenesis observed in adult life.
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