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CELL REPORTS
卷 39, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2022.110618
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- NIH [R37NS028182, RO1NS096509]
- NSF [MCB-1914542]
The study reveals that CAM binding affinities and expression levels play crucial roles in neuronal development, influencing synaptic targeting and survival of neurons, with surface avidity being the key parameter controlling circuit assembly.
Neurons in the developing brain express many different cell adhesion molecules (CAMs) on their surfaces. CAM-binding affinities can vary by more than 200-fold, but the significance of these variations is unknown. Interactions between the immunoglobulin superfamily CAM DIP-a and its binding partners, Dpr10 and Dpr6, control synaptic targeting and survival of Drosophila optic lobe neurons. We design mutations that systematically change interaction affinity and analyze function in vivo. Reducing affinity causes loss-of-function phenotypes whose severity scales with the magnitude of the change. Synaptic targeting is more sensitive to affinity reduction than is cell survival. Increasing affinity rescues neurons that would normally be culled by apoptosis. By manipulating CAM expression together with affinity, we show that the key parameter controlling circuit assembly is surface avidity, which is the strength of adherence between cell surfaces. We conclude that CAM binding affinities and expression levels are finely tuned for function during development.
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