p130CASIs Required for Netrin Signaling and Commissural Axon Guidance
Open Access
- 24 January 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Society for Neuroscience in Journal of Neuroscience
- Vol. 27 (4), 957-968
- https://doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.4616-06.2007
Abstract
Netrins are an important family of axon guidance cues. Here, we report that netrin-1 induces tyrosine phosphorylation of p130CAS (Crk-associated substrate). Our biochemical studies indicate that p130CAS is downstream of the Src family kinases and upstream of the small GTPase Rac1 and Cdc42. Inhibition of p130CAS signaling blocks both the neurite outgrowth-promoting activity and the axon attraction activity of netrin-1. p130CAS RNA interference inhibits the attraction of commissural axons in the spinal cord by netrin-1 and causes defects in commissural axon projection in the embryo. These results demonstrate that p130CAS is a key component in the netrin signal transduction pathway and plays an important role in guiding commissural axons in vivo.Keywords
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