Nature Communications (Oct 2016)

A plasma membrane microdomain compartmentalizes ephrin-generated cAMP signals to prune developing retinal axon arbors

  • Stefania Averaimo,
  • Ahlem Assali,
  • Oriol Ros,
  • Sandrine Couvet,
  • Yvrick Zagar,
  • Ioana Genescu,
  • Alexandra Rebsam,
  • Xavier Nicol

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12896
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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It is unclear what role cholesterol-enriched domains of the plasma membrane play in mediating the development of neuronal circuits. Here, the authors show that such domains localize ephrin-A-induced cAMP signals, causing the pruning of retinal ganglion cell axons.