Paranodal axoglial junctions are critical for maintaining the segregation of axonal domains along myelinated axons; however, the proteins required to organize and maintain this structure are not fully understood. Netrin-1 and its receptor Deleted in Colorectal Cancer (DCC) are proteins enriched at paranodes that are expressed by neurons and oligodendrocytes. To identify the specific function of...

The deleted in colorectal cancer (DCC) gene encodes a neural cell adhesion family molecule that was originally identified as a candidate tumor suppressor target of 18q allelic loss in colorectal cancer. However, the importance of the DCC protein has been most clearly demonstrated in neural development. Mutational and subsequent biochemical studies in C. elegans, Drosophila and vertebrates have ...

The cells expressing the T674I point mutant of FIP1-like-1-platelet-derived growth factor receptor alpha (FIP1L1-PDGFRα) in hypereosinophilics syndrome (HES) are resistant to imatinib and some second-generation tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs). There is a desperate need to develop therapy to combat this acquired drug resistance. DCC-2036 has been synthesized as a third-generation TKI to combat...

The growth and guidance of many axons in the developing nervous system require Netrin-mediated activation of Deleted in Colorectal Cancer (DCC) and other still unknown signaling cues. Commissural axon guidance defects are more severe in DCC mutant mice than Netrin-1 mutant mice, suggesting additional DCC activating signals besides Netrin-1 are involved in proper axon growth. Here we report that...

Relativistic nuclear collisions can produce matter in which chiral symmetry is restored. One possible consequence of this restoration is the formation of disoriented chiral condensates (DCC) – transient regions in which the average chiral order parameter differs from its value in the surrounding vacuum. Previous efforts to describe DCC signals have focused on pion production. In Ref. [1], Gavin...

The transmembrane protein deleted in colorectal cancer (DCC) and its ligand, netrin-1, regulate synaptogenesis during development, but their function in the mature central nervous system is unknown. Given that DCC promotes cell-cell adhesion, is expressed by neurons, and activates proteins that signal at synapses, we hypothesized that DCC expression by neurons regulates synaptic function and pl...

One of the most widely-used multivariate conditional volatility models is the dynamic conditional correlation (or DCC) specification. However, the underlying stochastic process to derive DCC has not yet been established, which has made problematic the derivation of asymptotic properties of the Quasi-Maximum Likelihood Estimators (QMLE). To date, the statistical properties of the QMLE of the DCC...

(Figure 1A,B). These results illustrate that DCC distribution is dynamically specified by developmental changes in gene expression. The aspect of transcriptional activity recognized by the DCC is unknown. Possibilities include chromatin features (e.g., nucleosome-free regions or variants and modifications of histones), or the transcription machinery itself. One suspect is histone H3 K4 methylat...

Deregulation of mechanisms that control cell motility plays a key role in tumor progression by promoting tumor cell dissemination. Secreted netrins and their receptors, Deleted in Colorectal Cancer (DCC), neogenin, and the UNC5 homologues, regulate cell and axon migration, cell adhesion, and tissue morphogenesis. Netrin and netrin receptor expression have previously been shown to be disrupted i...

Meningiomas are the most common primary brain tumors bearing in a minority of cases an aggressive phenotype. Although meningiomas are stratified according to their histology and clinical behavior, the underlying molecular genetics predicting aggressiveness are not thoroughly understood. We performed whole transcript expression profiling in 10 grade I and four grade II meningiomas, three of whic...