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Signalling pathways mediating the effects of CD40-activated CD40L reverse signalling on inhibitory medium spiny neuron Neurite growth

Carriba, Paulina and Davies, Alun M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5841-8176 2021. Signalling pathways mediating the effects of CD40-activated CD40L reverse signalling on inhibitory medium spiny neuron Neurite growth. Cells 10 (4) , 829. 10.3390/cells10040829

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Abstract

CD40-activated CD40L-mediated reverse signalling is a major physiological regulator of neurite growth from excitatory and inhibitory neurons in the developing central nervous system (CNS). Whereas in excitatory pyramidal neurons, CD40L reverse signalling promotes the growth and elaboration of dendrites and axons, in inhibitory GABAergic striatal medium spiny neurons (MSNs), it restricts neurite growth and branching. In pyramidal neurons, we previously reported that CD40L reverse signalling activates an interconnected and interdependent signalling network involving protein kinase C (PKC), extracellular regulated kinases 1 and 2 (ERK1/2), and c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) signalling pathways that regulates dendrite and axon growth. Here, we have studied whether these signalling pathways also influence neurite growth from striatal inhibitory MSNs. To unequivocally activate CD40L reverse signalling, we treated MSN cultures from CD40-deficient mice with CD40-Fc. Here, we report that activation of CD40L reverse signalling in these cultures also increased the phosphorylation of PKC, ERK1/2, and JNK. Using pharmacological activators and inhibitors of these signalling pathways singularly and in combination, we have shown that, as in pyramidal neurons, these signalling pathways work in an interconnected and interdependent network to regulate the neurite growth, but their functions, relationships, and interdependencies are different from those observed in pyramidal neurons. Furthermore, immunoprecipitation studies showed that stimulation of CD40L reverse signalling recruits the catalytic fragment of Syk tyrosine kinase, but in contrast to pyramidal neurons, PKC does not participate in this recruitment. Our findings show that distinctive networks of three signalling pathways mediate the opposite effects of CD40L reverse signalling on neurite growth in excitatory and inhibitory neurons.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Biosciences
Additional Information: This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/
Publisher: MDPI
ISSN: 2073-4409
Funders: Wellcome Trust
Date of First Compliant Deposit: 10 May 2021
Date of Acceptance: 2 April 2021
Last Modified: 05 May 2023 12:05
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/141170

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