NgCAM and VAMP2 reveal that direct delivery and dendritic degradation maintain axonal polarity.
NgCAM and VAMP2 reveal that direct delivery and dendritic degradation maintain axonal polarity.
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DOI:
10.1091/mbc.e21-08-0425
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发表时间:
2022-01-01
影响因子:
3.3
通讯作者:
Bentley M
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作者:
Nabb AT;Bentley M
Neurons are polarized cells of extreme scale and compartmentalization. To fulfill their role in electrochemical signaling, axons must maintain a specific complement of membrane proteins. Despite being the subject of considerable attention, the trafficking pathway of axonal membrane proteins is not well understood. Two pathways, direct delivery and transcytosis, have been proposed. Previous studies reached contradictory conclusions about which of these mediates delivery of axonal membrane proteins to their destination, in part because they evaluated long-term distribution changes and not vesicle transport. We developed a novel strategy to selectively label vesicles in different trafficking pathways and determined the trafficking of two canonical axonal membrane proteins, neuron–glia cell adhesion molecule and vesicle-associated membrane protein-2. Results from detailed quantitative analyses of transporting vesicles differed substantially from previous studies and found that axonal membrane proteins overwhelmingly undergo direct delivery. Transcytosis plays only a minor role in axonal delivery of these proteins. In addition, we identified a novel pathway by which wayward axonal proteins that reach the dendritic plasma membrane are targeted to lysosomes. These results redefine how axonal proteins achieve their polarized distribution, a crucial requirement for elucidating the underlying molecular mechanisms.