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Published June 5, 2013 | Accepted Version + Supplemental Material
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Interactions between a Receptor Tyrosine Phosphatase and a Cell Surface Ligand Regulate Axon Guidance and Glial-Neuronal Communication

Abstract

We developed a screening method for orphan receptor ligands, in which cell-surface proteins are expressed in Drosophila embryos from GAL4-dependent insertion lines and ligand candidates identified by the presence of ectopic staining with receptor fusion proteins. Stranded at second (Sas) binds to the receptor tyrosine phosphatase Ptp10D in embryos and in vitro. Sas and Ptp10D can interact in trans when expressed in cultured cells. Interactions between Sas and Ptp10D on longitudinal axons are required to prevent them from abnormally crossing the midline. Sas is expressed on both neurons and glia, whereas Ptp10D is restricted to CNS axons. We conducted epistasis experiments by overexpressing Sas in glia and examining how the resulting phenotypes are changed by removal of Ptp10D from neurons. We find that neuronal Ptp10D restrains signaling by overexpressed glial Sas, which would otherwise produce strong glial and axonal phenotypes.

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© 2013 Elsevier B. V. Accepted: March 22, 2013; Published: June 5, 2013. We thank Woj Wojtowicz (University of California, Berkeley) for Dscam fusion proteins, DNA constructs, antibodies, and advice on ELISAs; Engin Ozkan and Chris Garcia (Stanford) for Unc5-Fc and FasII-Fc; Douglas Cavener (Penn State) for anti-Sas, and Hermann Aberle for FasII-GAL4. We thank Violana Nesterova for help with figure preparation. Protein expression was done at the Caltech Protein Expression Center. This work was supported by an NIH RO1 grant (NS28182) to K.Z.

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