Nature Communications (Apr 2021)

Brain-specific lipoprotein receptors interact with astrocyte derived apolipoprotein and mediate neuron-glia lipid shuttling

  • Jun Yin,
  • Emma Spillman,
  • Ethan S. Cheng,
  • Jacob Short,
  • Yang Chen,
  • Jingce Lei,
  • Mary Gibbs,
  • Justin S. Rosenthal,
  • Chengyu Sheng,
  • Yuki X. Chen,
  • Kelly Veerasammy,
  • Tenzin Choetso,
  • Rinat Abzalimov,
  • Bei Wang,
  • Chun Han,
  • Ye He,
  • Quan Yuan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22751-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Lipophorin receptors (LpRs) regulate structural and functional development of neurons in Drosophila. Here authors demonstrate how short isoforms of LpR1 mediates astrocyte lipid shuttling to neuron through interacting with glia lipoprotein GLaz and the role of this pathway in dendritic morphogenesis in the fly brain.