Nature Communications (Feb 2017)

Post-endocytic sorting of Plexin-D1 controls signal transduction and development of axonal and vascular circuits

  • Katja Burk,
  • Erik Mire,
  • Anaïs Bellon,
  • Mélanie Hocine,
  • Jeremy Guillot,
  • Filipa Moraes,
  • Yutaka Yoshida,
  • Michael Simons,
  • Sophie Chauvet,
  • Fanny Mann

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14508
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Molecular mechanisms controlling axonal growth cone behaviour are only partially understood. Here the authors reveal a role of an adaptor protein GIPC1 in Plexin-D1 receptor recycling, and show that this process is required for axon track formation and vascular patterning in mice.