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Diverging roles for Lrp4 and Wnt signaling in neuromuscular synapse development during evolution

Authors
Remédio, L., Gribble, K.D., Lee, J.K., Kim, N., Hallock, P.T., Delestrée, N., Mentis, G.Z., Froemke, R.C., Granato, M., Burden, S.J.
ID
ZDB-PUB-160507-7
Date
2016
Source
Genes & Development   30: 1058-69 (Journal)
Registered Authors
Granato, Michael
Keywords
Frizzled, Lrp4, MuSK, Wnt, neuromuscular, synapse
MeSH Terms
  • Animals
  • Biological Evolution*
  • Body Patterning/genetics
  • Extracellular Matrix Proteins/genetics
  • Extracellular Matrix Proteins/metabolism*
  • Mice
  • Nerve Tissue Proteins/genetics
  • Nerve Tissue Proteins/metabolism*
  • Neuromuscular Junction/embryology*
  • Neuromuscular Junction/genetics*
  • Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases/genetics
  • Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases/metabolism*
  • Signal Transduction*
  • Zebrafish/embryology*
  • Zebrafish/genetics
  • Zebrafish Proteins/genetics
  • Zebrafish Proteins/metabolism*
PubMed
27151977 Full text @ Genes & Dev.
Abstract
Motor axons approach muscles that are prepatterned in the prospective synaptic region. In mice, prepatterning of acetylcholine receptors requires Lrp4, a LDLR family member, and MuSK, a receptor tyrosine kinase. Lrp4 can bind and stimulate MuSK, strongly suggesting that association between Lrp4 and MuSK, independent of additional ligands, initiates prepatterning in mice. In zebrafish, Wnts, which bind the Frizzled (Fz)-like domain in MuSK, are required for prepatterning, suggesting that Wnts may contribute to prepatterning and neuromuscular development in mammals. We show that prepatterning in mice requires Lrp4 but not the MuSK Fz-like domain. In contrast, prepatterning in zebrafish requires the MuSK Fz-like domain but not Lrp4. Despite these differences, neuromuscular synapse formation in zebrafish and mice share similar mechanisms, requiring Lrp4, MuSK, and neuronal Agrin but not the MuSK Fz-like domain or Wnt production from muscle. Our findings demonstrate that evolutionary divergent mechanisms establish muscle prepatterning in zebrafish and mice.
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