Wnt signaling and contact-mediated repulsion shape sensory dendritic fields.
Christopher P TzengKang ShenPublished in: bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology (2023)
▫ Secreted Wnt CWN-2 and cell-autonomous activity of neuronal LIN-17/Frizzled receptors restrict FLP dendritic field sizes▫ Endogenously tagged CWN-2/Wnt is punctate and visible in the same plane of growing FLP dendrites▫ Growth of developing FLP dendrites is inhibited upon contact with extracellular CWN-2/Wnt and with PVD dendrites.