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JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 33, Issue 25, Pages 10384-10395Publisher
SOC NEUROSCIENCE
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5858-12.2013
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- Wellcome Trust
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
- Cambridge Gates Trust Scholarship
- EMBO fellowship
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
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The RNA-binding protein Hermes [RNA-binding protein with multiple splicing (RBPMS)] is expressed exclusively in retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) in the CNS, but its function in these cells is not known. Here we show that Hermes protein translocates in granules from RGC bodies down the growing axons. Hermes loss of function in both Xenopus laevis and zebrafish embryos leads to a significant reduction in retinal axon arbor complexity in the optic tectum, and expression of a dominant acting mutant Hermes protein, defective in RNA-granule localization, causes similar defects in arborization. Time-lapse analysis of branch dynamics reveals that the decrease in arbor complexity is caused by a reduction in new branches rather than a decrease in branch stability. Surprisingly, Hermes depletion also leads to enhanced early visual behavior and an increase in the density of presynaptic puncta, suggesting that reduced arborization is accompanied by increased synaptogenesis to maintain synapse number.
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