When sugars guide axons: insights from heparan sulphate proteoglycan mutants.
Although there have previously been hints that heparan sulphate proteoglycans (HSPGs) are important for axon guidance, as they are for many other biological processes, there has been little in vivo evidence for interaction with known axon-guidance pathways. Genetic analyses of fly, mouse, nematode and zebrafish mutants now confirm the role of HSPGs in axon guidance and are beginning to show that they might have a key role in modulating the action of axon-guidance ligands and receptors.
Lee
Jeong-Soo
JS
Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Utah School of Medicine, 20 North 1900 East, Salt Lake City, Utah 84132, USA.
Chien
Chi-Bin
CB
D000818:Animals; D001369:Axons / Q000502:physiology*; D004330:Drosophila; D019812:Heparan Sulfate Proteoglycans / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D008024:Ligands; D051379:Mice; D008954:Models, Biological; D009154:Mutation; D009348:Nematoda; D015027:Zebrafish
D019812:Heparan Sulfate Proteoglycans; D008024:Ligands