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NATURE NEUROSCIENCE
卷 11, 期 1, 页码 19-27出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nn2026
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- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE [R37NS036193, R01NS027963, R01NS036193] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NINDS NIH HHS [NS 36193, R01 NS027963-10, R01 NS027963] Funding Source: Medline
Motor axons approach muscles that are regionally prespecialized, as acetylcholine receptors are clustered in the central region of muscle before and independently of innervation. This muscle prepattern requires MuSK, a receptor tyrosine kinase that is essential for synapse formation. It is not known how muscle prepatterning is established, and whether motor axons recognize this prepattern. Here we show that expression of Musk is prepatterned in muscle and that early Musk expression in developing myotubes is sufficient to establish muscle prepatterning. We further show that ectopic Musk expression promotes ectopic synapse formation, indicating that muscle prepatterning normally has an instructive role in directing where synapses will form. In addition, ectopic Musk expression stimulates synapse formation in the absence of Agrin and rescues the lethality of Agrn mutant mice, demonstrating that the postsynaptic cell, and MuSK in particular, has a potent role in regulating the formation of synapses.
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