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Development, Vol 127, Issue 7 1397-1410, Copyright © 2000 by Company of Biologists

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Complementary expression of transmembrane ephrins and their receptors in the mouse spinal cord: a possible role in constraining the orientation of longitudinally projecting axons

R Imondi, C Wideman and Z Kaprielian
Departments of Neuroscience and Pathology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA.

In the developing spinal cord, axons project in both the transverse plane, perpendicular to the floor plate, and in the longitudinal plane, parallel to the floor plate. For many axons, the floor plate is a source of long- and short-range guidance cues that govern growth along both dimensions. We show here that B-class transmembrane ephrins and their receptors are reciprocally expressed on floor plate cells and longitudinally projecting axons in the mouse spinal cord. During the period of commissural axon pathfinding, B-class ephrin protein is expressed at the lateral floor plate boundaries, at the interface between the floor plate and the ventral funiculus. In contrast, B-class Eph receptors are expressed on decussated commissural axon segments projecting within the ventral funiculus, and on ipsilaterally projecting axons constituting the lateral funiculus. Soluble forms of all three B-class ephrins bind to, and induce the collapse of, commissural growth cones in vitro. The collapse-inducing activity associated with B-class ephrins is likely to be mediated by EphB1. Taken together, these data support a possible role for repulsive B-class Eph receptor/ligand interactions in constraining the orientation of longitudinal axon projections at the ventral midline.
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