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Kozlowski C, Hadyniak SE, Kay JN. Retinal neurons establish mosaic patterning by excluding homotypic somata from their dendritic territories. Cell Rep. 2024 Aug 27;43(8):114615. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2024.114615. Epub 2024 Aug 11. PubMed PMID: 39133615; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11440617.
Bright CL, Bomze HM, Bhaumik M, Kay JN, Cartoni R, Gospe SM 3rd. Generation of an Armcx1 Conditional Knockout Mouse. Genesis. 2024 Aug;62(4):e23615. doi: 10.1002/dvg.23615. PubMed PMID: 39139090; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11364276.
Juros D, Avila MF, Hastings RL, Pendragon A, Wilson L, Kay J, Valdez G. Cellular and molecular alterations to muscles and neuromuscular synapses in a mouse model of MEGF10-related myopathy. Skelet Muscle. 2024 May 17;14(1):10. doi: 10.1186/s13395-024-00342-6. PubMed PMID: 38760872; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11100254.
Prigge CL, Dembla M, Sharma A, El-Quessny M, Kozlowski C, Paisley CE, Miltner AM, Johnson TM, Della Santina L, Feller MB, Kay JN. Rejection of inappropriate synaptic partners in mouse retina mediated by transcellular FLRT2-UNC5 signaling. Dev Cell. 2023 Oct 23;58(20):2080-2096.e7. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2023.07.011. Epub 2023 Aug 8. PubMed PMID: 37557174; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10615732.
Wang Y, Cao Y, Hays CL, Laboute T, Ray TA, Guerrero-Given D, Ahuja AS, Patil D, Rivero O, Kamasawa N, Kay JN, Thoreson WB, Martemyanov KA. Adhesion GPCR Latrophilin 3 regulates synaptic function of cone photoreceptors in a trans-synaptic manner. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 Nov 9;118(45). doi: 10.1073/pnas.2106694118. PubMed PMID: 34732574; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8609308.
Paisley CE, Kay JN. Seeing stars: Development and function of retinal astrocytes. Dev Biol. 2021 Oct;478:144-154. doi: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2021.07.007. Epub 2021 Jul 11. Review. PubMed PMID: 34260962; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8542354.
Perelli RM, O'Sullivan ML, Zarnick S, Kay JN. Environmental oxygen regulates astrocyte proliferation to guide angiogenesis during retinal development. Development. 2021 May 1;148(9). doi: 10.1242/dev.199418. Epub 2021 May 7. PubMed PMID: 33960384; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8126409.
Ray TA, Cochran K, Kozlowski C, Wang J, Alexander G, Cady MA, Spencer WJ, Ruzycki PA, Clark BS, Laeremans A, He MX, Wang X, Park E, Hao Y, Iannaccone A, Hu G, Fedrigo O, Skiba NP, Arshavsky VY, Kay JN. Comprehensive identification of mRNA isoforms reveals the diversity of neural cell-surface molecules with roles in retinal development and disease. Nat Commun. 2020 Jul 3;11(1):3328. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-17009-7. PubMed PMID: 32620864; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7335077.
Luo L, Ambrozkiewicz MC, Benseler F, Chen C, Dumontier E, Falkner S, Furlanis E, Gomez AM, Hoshina N, Huang WH, Hutchison MA, Itoh-Maruoka Y, Lavery LA, Li W, Maruo T, Motohashi J, Pai EL, Pelkey KA, Pereira A, Philips T, Sinclair JL, Stogsdill JA, Traunmüller L, Wang J, Wortel J, You W, Abumaria N, Beier KT, Brose N, Burgess HA, Cepko CL, Cloutier JF, Eroglu C, Goebbels S, Kaeser PS, Kay JN, Lu W, Luo L, Mandai K, McBain CJ, Nave KA, Prado MAM, Prado VF, Rothstein J, Rubenstein JLR, Saher G, Sakimura K, Sanes JR, Scheiffele P, Takai Y, Umemori H, Verhage M, Yuzaki M, Zoghbi HY, Kawabe H, Craig AM. Optimizing Nervous System-Specific Gene Targeting with Cre Driver Lines: Prevalence of Germline Recombination and Influencing Factors. Neuron. 2020 Apr 8;106(1):37-65.e5. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2020.01.008. Epub 2020 Feb 5. PubMed PMID: 32027825; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7377387.
Peng YR, James RE, Yan W, Kay JN, Kolodkin AL, Sanes JR. Binary Fate Choice between Closely Related Interneuronal Types Is Determined by a Fezf1-Dependent Postmitotic Transcriptional Switch. Neuron. 2020 Feb 5;105(3):464-474.e6. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2019.11.002. Epub 2019 Dec 4. PubMed PMID: 31812516; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7007373.
Puñal VM, Paisley CE, Brecha FS, Lee MA, Perelli RM, Wang J, O'Koren EG, Ackley CR, Saban DR, Reese BE, Kay JN. Large-scale death of retinal astrocytes during normal development is non-apoptotic and implemented by microglia. PLoS Biol. 2019 Oct;17(10):e3000492. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000492. eCollection 2019 Oct. PubMed PMID: 31626642; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6821132.
O'Koren EG, Yu C, Klingeborn M, Wong AYW, Prigge CL, Mathew R, Kalnitsky J, Msallam RA, Silvin A, Kay JN, Bowes Rickman C, Arshavsky VY, Ginhoux F, Merad M, Saban DR. Microglial Function Is Distinct in Different Anatomical Locations during Retinal Homeostasis and Degeneration. Immunity. 2019 Mar 19;50(3):723-737.e7. doi: 10.1016/j.immuni.2019.02.007. Epub 2019 Mar 5. PubMed PMID: 30850344; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6592635.
Ray TA, Cochran KJ, Kay JN. The Enigma of CRB1 and CRB1 Retinopathies. Adv Exp Med Biol. 2019;1185:251-255. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-27378-1_41. Review. PubMed PMID: 31884620.
Prigge CL, Kay JN. Dendrite morphogenesis from birth to adulthood. Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2018 Dec;53:139-145. doi: 10.1016/j.conb.2018.07.007. Epub 2018 Aug 6. Review. PubMed PMID: 30092409; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6242770.
Ray TA, Roy S, Kozlowski C, Wang J, Cafaro J, Hulbert SW, Wright CV, Field GD, Kay JN. Formation of retinal direction-selective circuitry initiated by starburst amacrine cell homotypic contact. Elife. 2018 Apr 3;7. doi: 10.7554/eLife.34241. PubMed PMID: 29611808; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5931800.
O'Sullivan ML, Puñal VM, Kerstein PC, Brzezinski JA 4th, Glaser T, Wright KM, Kay JN. Astrocytes follow ganglion cell axons to establish an angiogenic template during retinal development. Glia. 2017 Oct;65(10):1697-1716. doi: 10.1002/glia.23189. Epub 2017 Jul 19. PubMed PMID: 28722174; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5561467.
Wang J, O'Sullivan ML, Mukherjee D, Puñal VM, Farsiu S, Kay JN. Anatomy and spatial organization of Müller glia in mouse retina. J Comp Neurol. 2017 Jun 1;525(8):1759-1777. doi: 10.1002/cne.24153. Epub 2017 Mar 7. PubMed PMID: 27997986; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5542564.
Kay JN. Radial migration: Retinal neurons hold on for the ride. J Cell Biol. 2016 Oct 24;215(2):147-149. doi: 10.1083/jcb.201609135. Epub 2016 Oct 24. PubMed PMID: 27810908; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5082754.
Redmond SA, Mei F, Eshed-Eisenbach Y, Osso LA, Leshkowitz D, Shen YA, Kay JN, Aurrand-Lions M, Lyons DA, Peles E, Chan JR. Somatodendritic Expression of JAM2 Inhibits Oligodendrocyte Myelination. Neuron. 2016 Aug 17;91(4):824-836. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2016.07.021. Epub 2016 Aug 4. PubMed PMID: 27499083; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4990461.
Visser JJ, Cheng Y, Perry SC, Chastain AB, Parsa B, Masri SS, Ray TA, Kay JN, Wojtowicz WM. An extracellular biochemical screen reveals that FLRTs and Unc5s mediate neuronal subtype recognition in the retina. Elife. 2015 Dec 2;4:e08149. doi: 10.7554/eLife.08149. PubMed PMID: 26633812; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4737655.
Lefebvre JL, Sanes JR, Kay JN. Development of dendritic form and function. Annu Rev Cell Dev Biol. 2015;31:741-77. doi: 10.1146/annurev-cellbio-100913-013020. Epub 2015 Sep 29. Review. PubMed PMID: 26422333.
Ray TA, Kay JN. Following directions from the retina to the brain. Neuron. 2015 May 20;86(4):855-857. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2015.05.017. PubMed PMID: 25996129.
Whitney IE, Keeley PW, St John AJ, Kautzman AG, Kay JN, Reese BE. Sox2 regulates cholinergic amacrine cell positioning and dendritic stratification in the retina. J Neurosci. 2014 Jul 23;34(30):10109-21. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0415-14.2014. PubMed PMID: 25057212; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4107400.
Ford KJ, Arroyo DA, Kay JN, Lloyd EE, Bryan RM Jr, Sanes JR, Feller MB. A role for TREK1 in generating the slow afterhyperpolarization in developing starburst amacrine cells. J Neurophysiol. 2013 May;109(9):2250-9. doi: 10.1152/jn.01085.2012. Epub 2013 Feb 6. PubMed PMID: 23390312; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3652223.
Kay JN, Sanes JR. Development of retinal arbors and synapses. In: The New Visual Neurosciences Cambridge: MIT Press; 2013.
Kay JN, Chu MW, Sanes JR. MEGF10 and MEGF11 mediate homotypic interactions required for mosaic spacing of retinal neurons. Nature. 2012 Mar 11;483(7390):465-9. doi: 10.1038/nature10877. PubMed PMID: 22407321; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3310952.
Kay JN, Voinescu PE, Chu MW, Sanes JR. Neurod6 expression defines new retinal amacrine cell subtypes and regulates their fate. Nat Neurosci. 2011 Jul 10;14(8):965-72. doi: 10.1038/nn.2859. PubMed PMID: 21743471; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3144989.
Kay JN, De la Huerta I, Kim IJ, Zhang Y, Yamagata M, Chu MW, Meister M, Sanes JR. Retinal ganglion cells with distinct directional preferences differ in molecular identity, structure, and central projections. J Neurosci. 2011 May 25;31(21):7753-62. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0907-11.2011. PubMed PMID: 21613488; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3108146.
Voinescu PE, Kay JN, Sanes JR. Birthdays of retinal amacrine cell subtypes are systematically related to their molecular identity and soma position. J Comp Neurol. 2009 Dec 10;517(5):737-50. doi: 10.1002/cne.22200. PubMed PMID: 19827163; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2814066.
Muto A, Orger MB, Wehman AM, Smear MC, Kay JN, Page-McCaw PS, Gahtan E, Xiao T, Nevin LM, Gosse NJ, Staub W, Finger-Baier K, Baier H. Forward genetic analysis of visual behavior in zebrafish. PLoS Genet. 2005 Nov;1(5):e66. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0010066. Epub 2005 Nov 25. PubMed PMID: 16311625; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC1287954.
Kay JN, Link BA, Baier H. Staggered cell-intrinsic timing of ath5 expression underlies the wave of ganglion cell neurogenesis in the zebrafish retina. Development. 2005 Jun;132(11):2573-85. doi: 10.1242/dev.01831. Epub 2005 Apr 27. PubMed PMID: 15857917.
Kay JN, Baier H. Out-foxing fate; molecular switches create neuronal diversity in the retina. Neuron. 2004 Sep 16;43(6):759-60. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2004.09.001. PubMed PMID: 15363386.
Kay JN, Roeser T, Mumm JS, Godinho L, Mrejeru A, Wong RO, Baier H. Transient requirement for ganglion cells during assembly of retinal synaptic layers. Development. 2004 Mar;131(6):1331-42. doi: 10.1242/dev.01040. Epub 2004 Feb 18. PubMed PMID: 14973290; NIHMSID:NIHMS81372.
Kay JN, Finger-Baier KC, Roeser T, Staub W, Baier H. Retinal ganglion cell genesis requires lakritz, a Zebrafish atonal Homolog. Neuron. 2001 Jun;30(3):725-36. doi: 10.1016/s0896-6273(01)00312-9. PubMed PMID: 11430806.
Kay JN, Blum M. Differential response of ventral midbrain and striatal progenitor cells to lesions of the nigrostriatal dopaminergic projection. Dev Neurosci. 2000;22(1-2):56-67. doi: 10.1159/000017427. PubMed PMID: 10657698.
Kay JN, Hannigan P, Kelley DB. Trophic effects of androgen: development and hormonal regulation of neuron number in a sexually dimorphic vocal motor nucleus. J Neurobiol. 1999 Sep 5;40(3):375-85. PubMed PMID: 10440737.
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