Alex Kolodkin - Recent papers

• Ayoob, J.C., Terman, J.R., and Kolodkin, A.L. (2006). Drosophila plexin B is a Sema-2a receptor required for axon guidance. Development 133, 2125-2135. [LINK]

• Huber, A.B., Kania, A., Tran, T.S., Gu, C., De Marco Garcia, N., Lieberam, I., Johnson, D., Jessell, T.M. Ginty, D.D., and Kolodkin, A.L. (2005). Distinct roles for secreted semaphorin signaling in spinal motor axon guidance. Neuron 48, 949-964. [LINK]

• Sahay, A., Kim, C-h., Sepkuty J.P., Cho, E., Huganir, R.L., Ginty. D.D., Kolodkin, A.L. (2005). Secreted Semaphorins Modulate Synaptic Transmission in the Adult Hippocampus. J. Neurosci. 25, 3613-3620.

• Kantor, D.B., Chivatakarn, O., Peer, K.L., Oster, S.F., Inatani, M., Hansen, M.J., Flanagan, J.G., Yamaguchi, Y., Sretavan, D.W., Giger, R.J., and Kolodkin, A.L. (2004). Semaphorin 5A is a Bifunctional Axon Guidance Cue Regulated by Heparan and Chondroitin Sulfate Proteoglycans. Neuron, 44, 961-975. [PDF]

• Gu, C., Yoshida, Y., Livet, J., Reimert, D.V., Mann, F., Merte, J., Henderson, C.E., Jessell, T.M., Kolodkin, A.L., and Ginty, D.D. (2005). Semaphorin 3E and its receptor plexin-D1 control vascular patterning independently of neuropilins. Science, 307, 265-268. [EPub 18/11/04;101126/science.1105416]. [LINK]

• Ayoob, J.C., Yu, H.-H., Terman, J.R., and Kolodkin, A.L.. (2004). The Drosophila receptor guanylyl cyclase DrGC-1 is required for semaphorin-1a–plexin A mediated axonal repulsion. J. Neurosci. 24, pp6639-6649. [PDF]

• Terman, J.R., and Kolodkin, A.L. (2004). The AKAP Nervy direction couples Protein Kinase A to Plexin-mediated semaphorin repulsion. Science, 303, pp. 1204-1207. [PDF]

• Pasterkamp, R.J., Peshon, J.J., Spriggs, M.K. and Kolodkin, A.L. (2003). Semaphorin 7A promotes axon outgrowth through integrins and MAPKs. Nature, 424, pp. 398-405. [PDF]

• Gu, C., Reimert, D.V., Shu, T., Fritzsch, B., Richards, L.J., Rodriguez, E.R., Kolodkin, A.L., and Ginty,D.D. (2003). Neuropilin-1 mediates semaphorin and VEGF signaling during neural and cardiovascular development. Developmental Cell, 5, pp. 45-57. [PDF]

• Sahay, A., Molliver, M.E., Ginty, D.D., and Kolodkin, A.L.. (2003). Semaphorin 3F is critical for limbic system connectivity and is required in neurons for selective CNS axon guidance events. J. Neurosci., 23, pp.6671-6680. [PDF]

• Terman, J.R., Mao, T., Pasterkamp, R.J., Yu, H.-H., and Kolodkin, A.L. (2002). MICALs, a Family of Conserved Flavoprotein Oxidoreductases, Function in Plexin-Mediated Axonal Repulsion. Cell, 109, pp.887-900. [PDF]

• Gu, C.-G, Limberg, B.J., Whitaker, G.B., Perman, B., Leahy, D.J., Rosenbaum, J.S., Ginty, D.D., and Kolodkin, A.L. (2002). Characterization of Neuropilin-1 structural features that confer binding to Sema3A and VEGF165. J. Biol. Chem. 277, pp.18069-18076. [PDF]

• Giger, R.J., Cloutier, J.-F., Sahay, A., Prinjha, R.K., Pickering, S., Moore, S.E , Simmons, D.L., Raston, S., Walsh, F.S. Kolodkin, A.L., Ginty, D.D., and Geppert, M. (2000). Neuropilin-2 is required in vivo for selective axon guidance responses to secreted semaphorins. Neuron, 26, pp.29-41. [PDF]

• Giger, R.J., Urquhart, E.R., Gillespie, S.K.H., Levengood, D.V., Ginty, D.D., and Kolodkin, A.L. (1998). Neuropilin-2 is a receptor for semaphorin IV: Insight into the structural basis of receptor function and specificity. Neuron, 21, pp.1079-1092. [PDF]

• Yu, H.-H., Araj, H.H., Ralls, S.A., and Kolodkin, A.L. (1998). The transmembrane semaphorin Sema-I is required in Drosophila for embryonic motor and CNS axon guidance. Neuron, 20, pp.207-220. [PDF]

• Kolodkin, A.L., Levengood, D.V., Rowe, E.G., Tai, Y.-T., Giger, R. J., and Ginty, D. D. (1997). Neuropilin is a semaphorin III receptor. Cell, 90, pp.753-762. [PDF]