Molecular genetics of neuronal recognition in Drosophila: evolution and function of immunoglobulin superfamily cell adhesion molecules.
Molecular genetics of neuronal recognition in Drosophila: evolution and function of immunoglobulin superfamily cell adhesion molecules.
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果蝇神经元识别的分子遗传学:免疫球蛋白超家族细胞粘附分子的进化和功能。
DOI:
10.1101/sqb.1990.055.01.034
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1990
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Goodman,CS
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Grenningloh,G;Bieber,AJ;Rehm,EJ;Snow,PM;Traquina,ZR;Hortsch,M;Patel,NH;Goodman,CS
One form of neuronal recognition is the remarkable selectivity shown by neuronal growth cones in their ability to recognize and extend along specific axonal surfaces, a process called selective fasciculation. At the Cold Spring Harbor Symposium on Molecular Neurobiology in 1983, Raper, Bastiani, and Goodman (1983c) proposed on the basis of a long series of descriptive and experimental studies on the mechanisms of selective fasciculation in the grasshopper (Raper et al. 1983 a, b, 1984; Bastiani et al. 1984) that neighboring axon pathways must be differentially labeled by surface recognition molecules, which allow growth cones to distinguish among them--a notion they called the labeled pathways hypothesis. Subsequent cellular analysis from our laboratory in both the grasshopper (Bastiani et al. 1986; Doe et al. 1986; du Lac et al. 1986) and a simple vertebrate (the fish spinal cord; see Kuwada 1986) further supported this hypothesis. At about the same time, other studies from our laboratory, in collaboration with Michael Bate at Cambridge, showed that what had been learned from the large grasshopper embryo with its highly accessible identified neurons could be directly applied to the much smaller fruitfly, Drosophila, with its powerful genetics (Thomas et al. 1984), thus opening the door to a combined cellular, classical genetic, and molecular genetic analyses of this problem (see, eg, Goodman et al. 1984). Several years ago, in an attempt to identify molecules that impart specificity on the developing nervous system, our laboratory began a series of monoclonal antibody screens to identify surface glycoproteins that are differentially expressed during development on subsets of axon pathways in the insect embryo (Bastiani et al. 1987; Patel et al. 1987; Bieber et al. 1989). The longterm goal of this work was to identify and characterize the genes encoding these neuronal recognition molecules in Drosophila, to identify mutations in these genes, and to use these mutations as the starting point for a detailed genetic analysis of neuronal recognition. We initially identified and subsequently cloned the genes encoding four different surface glycoproteins that are dynamically expressed on different overlapping