PUBLICATION
Mirror movement-like defects in startle behavior of zebrafish dcc mutants are caused by aberrant midline guidance of identified descending hindbrain neurons
- Authors
- Jain, R.A., Bell, H., Lim, A., Chien, C.B., Granato, M.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-190620-11
- Date
- 2014
- Source
- The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 34: 2898-909 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Chien, Chi-Bin, Granato, Michael, Jain, Roshan, Lim, Amy
- Keywords
- DCC, axon guidance, movement disorders, zebrafish
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Axons/physiology
- Behavior, Animal/physiology
- Chromosome Mapping
- DNA, Complementary/biosynthesis
- DNA, Complementary/genetics
- Fluorescent Antibody Technique
- Gene Deletion
- Genes, DCC/genetics*
- Genes, DCC/physiology*
- Genotype
- Interneurons/physiology
- Larva
- Mutation/physiology*
- Mutation, Missense/genetics
- Mutation, Missense/physiology
- Neural Pathways/physiology
- Neurons/physiology*
- Phenotype
- Reflex, Startle/physiology*
- Rhombencephalon/cytology
- Rhombencephalon/metabolism
- Rhombencephalon/physiology*
- Swimming/physiology
- Touch/physiology
- Zebrafish/physiology*
- PubMed
- 24553931 Full text @ J. Neurosci.
Citation
Jain, R.A., Bell, H., Lim, A., Chien, C.B., Granato, M. (2014) Mirror movement-like defects in startle behavior of zebrafish dcc mutants are caused by aberrant midline guidance of identified descending hindbrain neurons. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience. 34:2898-909.
Abstract
Mirror movements are involuntary movements on one side of the body that occur simultaneously with intentional movements on the contralateral side. Humans with heterozygous mutations in the axon guidance receptor DCC display such mirror movements, where unilateral stimulation results in inappropriate bilateral motor output. Currently, it is unclear whether mirror movements are caused by incomplete midline crossing and reduced commissural connectivity of DCC-dependent descending pathways or by aberrant ectopic ipsilateral axonal projections of normally commissural neurons. Here, we show that in response to unilateral tactile stimuli, zebrafish dcc mutant larvae perform involuntary turns on the inappropriate body side. We show that these mirror movement-like deficits are associated with axonal guidance defects of two identified groups of commissural reticulospinal hindbrain neurons. Moreover, we demonstrate that in dcc mutants, axons of these identified neurons frequently fail to cross the midline and instead project ipsilaterally. Whereas laser ablation of these neurons in wild-type animals does not affect turning movements, their ablation in dcc mutants restores turning movements. Thus, our results demonstrate that in dcc mutants, turns on the inappropriate side of the body are caused by aberrant ipsilateral axonal projections, and suggest that aberrant ipsilateral connectivity of a very small number of descending axons is sufficient to induce incorrect movement patterns.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping