Salinas Patricia C
Department of Biological Sciences, Imperial College London, Exhibition Road, SW7 2AZ, London, UK.
Trends Neurosci. 2003 Dec;26(12):641-3. doi: 10.1016/j.tins.2003.09.006.
Netrin-1 is an attractive axon guidance molecule required for the proper navigation of commissural axons to the floor plate in the spinal cord. A new study now shows that sonic hedgehog (Shh) from midline structures collaborates with netrin-1 to guide commissural axons. This new role for the morphogen Shh raises the possibility that principles similar to those used to establish positional information in embryonic patterning are also employed during axon navigation.
Netrin-1是一种具有吸引力的轴突导向分子,是脊髓中连合轴突正确导航至底板所必需的。一项新研究表明,来自中线结构的音猬因子(Shh)与Netrin-1协同作用以引导连合轴突。形态发生素Shh的这一新作用增加了一种可能性,即类似于在胚胎模式形成中用于建立位置信息的原理也在轴突导航过程中被采用。