Ephrin-A3 promotes and maintains slow muscle fiber identity during postnatal development and reinnervation
Copyright policy )Ephrin-A3 promotes and maintains slow muscle fiber identity during postnatal development and reinnervation
Each adult mammalian skeletal muscle has a unique complement of fast and slow myofibers, reflecting patterns established during development and reinforced via their innervation by fast and slow motor neurons. Existing data support a model of postnatal "matching" whereby predetermined myofiber type identity promotes pruning of inappropriate motor axons, but no molecular mechanism has yet been identified. We present evidence that fiber type–specific repulsive interactions inhibit innervation of slow myofibers by fast motor axons during both postnatal maturation of the neuromuscular junction and myofiber reinnervation after injury. The repulsive guidance ligand ephrin-A3 is expressed only on slow myofibers, whereas its candidate receptor, EphA8, localizes exclusively to fast motor endplates. Adult mice lacking ephrin-A3 have dramatically fewer slow myofibers in fast and mixed muscles, and misexpression of ephrin-A3 on fast myofibers followed by denervation/reinnervation promotes their respecification to a slow phenotype. We therefore conclude that Eph/ephrin interactions guide the fiber type specificity of neuromuscular interactions during development and adult life.
- University of Missouri Health System United States
- University of Missouri United States
- UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA
- University of Montreal Canada
Motor Neurons, Neuronal Plasticity, Neurogenesis, Receptor, EphA3, Neuromuscular Junction, Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental, Mice, Transgenic, Receptor, EphA8, Ligands, Immunohistochemistry, Axons, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Mice, Phenotype, Microscopy, Fluorescence, Myofibrils, Animals, Female, Schwann Cells, Muscle, Skeletal, Research Articles
Motor Neurons, Neuronal Plasticity, Neurogenesis, Receptor, EphA3, Neuromuscular Junction, Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental, Mice, Transgenic, Receptor, EphA8, Ligands, Immunohistochemistry, Axons, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Mice, Phenotype, Microscopy, Fluorescence, Myofibrils, Animals, Female, Schwann Cells, Muscle, Skeletal, Research Articles
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