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Subcellular second messenger networks drive distinct repellent-induced axon behaviors
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Second messengers, including cAMP, cGMP and Ca 2+ are often placed in an integrating position to combine the extracellular cues that orient growing axons in the developing brain. This view suggests that axon repellents share the same set of cellular messenger signals and that axon attractants evoke opposite cAMP, cGMP and Ca 2+ changes. Investigating the confinement of these second messengers in cellular nanodomains, we instead demonstrate that two repellent cues, ephrin-A5 and Slit1, induce spatially segregated signals. These guidance molecules activate subcellular-specific second messenger crosstalk, each signaling network controlling distinct axonal morphology changes in vitro and pathfinding decisions in vivo.
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Ricci, C., Midroit, M. J., Caicci, F., Achsel, T., Domínguez-Iturza, N., & Bagni, C. (2025) · Nature Communications · doi:10.1038/s41467-025-65801-0 · Cited by 1
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- Authors
- Baudet, S., Zagar, Y., Roche, F., Gomez-Bravo, C., Couvet, S., Bécret, J., Belle, M., Vougny, J., Uthayasuthan, S., Ros, O., & Nicol, X.
- Affiliations
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- Corresponding author
- Nicol, Xavier
- ORCID
- Venue
- Nature Communications
- Published
- 2023-06-27
- Volume
- 14
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 3809-3809
- ISSN
- 2041-1723 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC10300027
- OpenAlex
- W4382344515
- Cited by
- 13
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 8 · 2023: 2
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- 1.58
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- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
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- Nature Communications (publishedVersion, cc-by)
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- Funders
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-18-CE16-0017, ANR‐10‐LABX‐65, ANR18, 10-LABX-65, ANR-18-IAHU-0001, ANR-10)
- Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale (ANR-10-LABX-65, FDT202204014862)
- Fondation de France (00099274)
- Fondation Voir et Entendre (ANR-10-LABX-65)
- Sorbonne Université
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Axon Guidance and Neuronal Signaling
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Nerve injury and regeneration
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Developmental Neuroscience › Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms
- Keywords
- axon guidance, second messengers, cyclic AMP, cyclic GMP, calcium signaling, ephrin-A5, Slit1, axon morphology, nanodomains
- MeSH terms
- Axons, Cyclic GMP, Second Messenger Systems, Signal Transduction
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