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The Journal of Neuroscience, April 5, 2006, 26(14):3829-3839; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4247-05.2006
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NG2 Glial Cells Provide a Favorable Substrate for Growing Axons
Zhongshu Yang, Ryusuke Suzuki, Stephen B. Daniels, Christopher B. Brunquell, Christopher J. Sala, andAkiko Nishiyama Department of Physiology and Neurobiology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269-3156
Correspondence should be addressed to Akiko Nishiyama, Department of Physiology and Neurobiology, University of Connecticut, 75 North Eagleville Road, Unit 3156, Storrs, CT 06269-3156. Email: akiko.nishiyama{at}uconn.edu
NG2 cells (polydendrocytes) comprise an abundant glial population that is widely and uniformly distributed throughout the developing and mature CNS and are identified by the expression of the NG2 proteoglycan at the cell surface. Although recent electrophysiological studies suggest that they are capable of receiving signals from axon terminals, other studies, based on the finding that the NG2 molecule itself induces growth cone collapse, have led to a widely held speculation that NG2 cells themselves also repel and inhibit growing axons. In this study, we have examined the effects of rat NG2 cells on growing hippocampal and neocortical axons in vitro and in vivo. NG2 cells did not repel growing axons but promoted their growth in vitro, and axonal growth cones formed extensive contacts with NG2 cells both in vitro and in the developing corpus callosum. Punctate immunoreactivity for fibronectin and laminin was found to be colocalized with NG2 on the surface of NG2 cells. Altering the level of cell surface NG2 expression had no effect on the growth-promoting effects of NG2 cells on growing axons. Thus, our study indicates that NG2 cells are not inhibitory to growing axons but provide an adhesive substrate for axonal growth cones and promote their growth even in the presence of elevated levels of the NG2 proteoglycan. These findings suggest a novel role for NG2 cells in facilitating axonal growth during development and regeneration.
Key words: NG2; oligodendrocyte progenitor; proteoglycan; growth cone; axon; neurites; fibronectin; laminin
Received Oct. 5, 2005; revised Feb. 17, 2006; accepted Feb. 23, 2006.
Correspondence should be addressed to Akiko Nishiyama, Department of Physiology and Neurobiology, University of Connecticut, 75 North Eagleville Road, Unit 3156, Storrs, CT 06269-3156. Email: akiko.nishiyama{at}uconn.edu
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