PUBLICATION
When sugars guide axons: insights from heparan sulphate proteoglycan mutants
- Authors
- Lee, J.S., and Chien, C.B.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-041202-7
- Date
- 2004
- Source
- Nature reviews. Genetics 5(12): 923-935 (Review)
- Registered Authors
- Chien, Chi-Bin, Lee, Jeong-Soo
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Axons/physiology*
- Drosophila
- Heparan Sulfate Proteoglycans/chemistry
- Heparan Sulfate Proteoglycans/genetics
- Heparan Sulfate Proteoglycans/physiology*
- Ligands
- Mice
- Models, Biological
- Mutation
- Nematoda
- Zebrafish
- PubMed
- 15573124 Full text @ Nat. Rev. Genet.
Citation
Lee, J.S., and Chien, C.B. (2004) When sugars guide axons: insights from heparan sulphate proteoglycan mutants. Nature reviews. Genetics. 5(12):923-935.
Abstract
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.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping