JAX
Mouse Strain Datasheet - 008820
FVB.B-WldS/UmonJ
This Wlds spontaneous mutant mouse strain may be useful in studies of peripheral nerve regeneration and neurodegenerative disorders.
Donating Investigator
Umrao R Monani, Columbia University Medical Center
Genetic overview
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Wlds
| Allele Type | Gene Symbol | Gene Name |
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| Spontaneous | Wld | wallerian degeneration |
Detailed Description
The Wallerian degeneration slow spontaneous mutation, Wlds arose on the C57BL/Ola background. On the congenic FVB/N background, mice that are homozygous for this mutation exhibit delayed Wallerian degeneration compared to wildtype controls. Wallerian degeneration is the process of degeneration, after transection, of axons distal to the sever site of a peripheral nerve, and includes infiltration of macrophages, demyelination and initiation of Schwann cell mitosis. The Wlds mutation is widely expressed and is detected in neural tissue.
Development
The Wallerian degeneration slow spontaneous mutation, Wlds arose on the C57BL/Ola background. The Donating Investigator backcrossed the mice to FVB/N for 9 generations and notes that there are incidental mutant loci. Upon arrival at The Jackson Laboratory the mice were crossed with FVB/NJ at least once to establish the colony and the resulting offspring carrying only the Wlds allele were selectively bred to establish this strain.
Control Suggestions
Selected References
- Kariya S; Mauricio R; Dai Y; Monani UR. 2009. The neuroprotective factor Wld(s) fails to mitigate distal axonal and neuromuscular junction (NMJ) defects in mouse models of spinal muscular atrophy. Neurosci Lett 449(3):246-51. PubMed: 19010394MGI: J:146336
- Lyon MF; Ogunkolade BW; Brown MC; Atherton DJ; Perry VH. 1993. A gene affecting Wallerian nerve degeneration maps distally on mouse chromosome 4. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 90(20):9717-20. PubMed: 8415768MGI: J:15229
Wlds
Allele Symbol: Wlds
| Allele Name | Wallerian degeneration slow |
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| Allele Type | Spontaneous |
| Allele Synonym(s) | Wlds |
| Gene Symbol and Name | Wld, wallerian degeneration |
| Gene Synonym(s) | Wlds |
| Strain of Origin | C57BL/6Ola |
| Chromosome | 4 |
| Molecular Note | The underlying mutation is an 85-kb tandem triplication on chromosome 4. This triplication results in the expression of an abnormal transcript that encodes a fusion of the N-terminal fragment of ubiquitination factor E4B (Ube4b) fused to nicotinamide mononucleotide adenylyltransferase 1 (Nmnat1). |
| Mutations Made By | Umrao Monani, Columbia University Medical Center |
Disease Terms
Research Areas By Genotype
This mouse can be used to support research in many areas including:
- Neurobiology Research
- Myelination Defects
- peripheral neuropathy
- Neurodegeneration
- Parkinson's Disease
- resistance to MPTP
- Myelination Defects
Mammalian Phenotype Terms by Genotype
The following phenotype information is associated with a similar, but not exact match to this JAX® Mice strain
Genotype: Wlds/Wlds
C57BL/6Ola-Wlds
nervous system phenotype
- abnormal peripheral nervous system regeneration
- the rate of regeneration and recovery of function after facial nerve crush is delayed compared to C57BL/6J mice, as observed by vibrissae movement (MGI Ref ID J:12834)
- the rate of regeneration and recovery of function after sciatic nerve crush is delayed and incomplete compared to C57BL/6J mice, as determined by sciatic functional index (SFI) using measurments of walking ability and by measurments of axonal transport (MGI Ref ID J:12834)
- the rate of regeneration and recovery of motor function in the soleus muscle after a crush of the sciatic nerve is similar in mutant mice and controls, with a slight delay in recovery of normal conduction velocity in mutant mice (MGI Ref ID J:19951)
- retinal ganglion cell degeneration
- while retinal ganglion cells undergo retrograde degeneration in response to optic nerve injury, they do so at a much slower rate than in other strains (MGI Ref ID J:19950)
- slow Wallerian degeneration
- (MGI Ref ID J:15229)
- 1 year old C57BL/Ola mice showed faster Wallerian degeneration than 4 week old mice, with compund action potentials recorded in a distal nerve stump 5 days after section in 4 week old mutant mice, but not 1 year old mutant mice (MGI Ref ID J:3359)
- 5 days after severing the sciatic nerve, mice show slow Wallerian degeneration evidenced by an intact cytoskeleton and plasma membrane, while control mice show a destruction of cytoarchitecture in the distal portion of the severed nerve (MGI Ref ID J:19951)
- following optic nerve transection, the axons of retinal ganglion cells undergo very slow Wallerian degeneration (MGI Ref ID J:19950)
- in addition, the distal portions of mutant severed nerves show an ability to conduct action potentials up to 14 days post section, while control nerves stop conducting 2 days after the nerve is cut (MGI Ref ID J:19951)
- invasion by polymorphs and macrophages of the distal portion of the severed nerve is not observed in mutant mice, resulting in an absence of myelin breakdown; controls show an increase in myeloperoxidase positive cells and Schwann cell proliferation within 3 days of sectionn 3 days of section (MGI Ref ID J:19951)
vision/eye phenotype
- retinal ganglion cell degeneration
- while retinal ganglion cells undergo retrograde degeneration in response to optic nerve injury, they do so at a much slower rate than in other strains (MGI Ref ID J:19950)
homeostasis/metabolism phenotype
- slow Wallerian degeneration
- (MGI Ref ID J:15229)
- 1 year old C57BL/Ola mice showed faster Wallerian degeneration than 4 week old mice, with compund action potentials recorded in a distal nerve stump 5 days after section in 4 week old mutant mice, but not 1 year old mutant mice (MGI Ref ID J:3359)
- 5 days after severing the sciatic nerve, mice show slow Wallerian degeneration evidenced by an intact cytoskeleton and plasma membrane, while control mice show a destruction of cytoarchitecture in the distal portion of the severed nerve (MGI Ref ID J:19951)
- following optic nerve transection, the axons of retinal ganglion cells undergo very slow Wallerian degeneration (MGI Ref ID J:19950)
- in addition, the distal portions of mutant severed nerves show an ability to conduct action potentials up to 14 days post section, while control nerves stop conducting 2 days after the nerve is cut (MGI Ref ID J:19951)
- invasion by polymorphs and macrophages of the distal portion of the severed nerve is not observed in mutant mice, resulting in an absence of myelin breakdown; controls show an increase in myeloperoxidase positive cells and Schwann cell proliferation within 3 days of sectionn 3 days of section (MGI Ref ID J:19951)
References
- Kariya S; Mauricio R; Dai Y; Monani UR. 2009. The neuroprotective factor Wld(s) fails to mitigate distal axonal and neuromuscular junction (NMJ) defects in mouse models of spinal muscular atrophy. Neurosci Lett 449(3):246-51. PubMed: 19010394MGI: J:146336
- Lyon MF; Ogunkolade BW; Brown MC; Atherton DJ; Perry VH. 1993. A gene affecting Wallerian nerve degeneration maps distally on mouse chromosome 4. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 90(20):9717-20. PubMed: 8415768MGI: J:15229
Additional - Wlds related
- Babetto E; Beirowski B; Janeckova L; Brown R; Gilley J; Thomson D; Ribchester RR; Coleman MP. 2010. Targeting NMNAT1 to axons and synapses transforms its neuroprotective potency in vivo. J Neurosci 30(40):13291-304. PubMed: 20926655MGI: J:165098
- Barrientos SA; Martinez NW; Yoo S; Jara JS; Zamorano S; Hetz C; Twiss JL; Alvarez J; Court FA. 2011. Axonal degeneration is mediated by the mitochondrial permeability transition pore. J Neurosci 31(3):966-78. PubMed: 21248121MGI: J:180833
- Beirowski B; Adalbert R; Wagner D; Grumme DS; Addicks K; Ribchester RR; Coleman MP. 2005. The progressive nature of Wallerian degeneration in wild-type and slow Wallerian degeneration (WldS) nerves. BMC Neurosci 6(1):6. PubMed: 15686598MGI: J:96660
- Benavides E; Alvarez J. 1998. Peripheral axons of Wlds mice, which regenerate after a delay of several weeks, do so readily when transcription is inhibited in the distal stump. Neurosci Lett 258(2):77-80. PubMed: 9875531MGI: J:107953
- Bisby MA; Chen S. 1990. Delayed wallerian degeneration in sciatic nerves of C57BL/Ola mice is associated with impaired regeneration of sensory axons. Brain Res 530(1):117-20. PubMed: 2271939MGI: J:20054
- Bisby MA; Tetzlaff W; Brown MC. 1995. Cell body response to injury in motoneurons and primary sensory neurons of a mutant mouse, Ola (Wld), in which Wallerian degeneration is delayed. J Comp Neurol 359(4):653-62. PubMed: 7499554MGI: J:28427
- Bridge KE; Berg N; Adalbert R; Babetto E; Dias T; Spillantini MG; Ribchester RR; Coleman MP. 2009. Late onset distal axonal swelling in YFP-H transgenic mice. Neurobiol Aging 30(2):309-21. PubMed: 17658198MGI: J:145817
- Brown KD; Maqsood S; Huang JY; Pan Y; Harkcom W; Li W; Sauve A; Verdin E; Jaffrey SR. 2014. Activation of SIRT3 by the NAD(+) precursor nicotinamide riboside protects from noise-induced hearing loss. Cell Metab 20(6):1059-68. PubMed: 25470550MGI: J:219488
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- Brown MC; Perry VH; Hunt SP; Lapper SR. 1994. Further studies on motor and sensory nerve regeneration in mice with delayed Wallerian degeneration. Eur J Neurosci 6(3):420-8. PubMed: 8019679MGI: J:19071
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- Buckmaster EA; Perry VH; Brown MC. 1995. The rate of Wallerian degeneration in cultured neurons from wild type and C57BL/WldS mice depends on time in culture and may be extended in the presence of elevated K+ levels. Eur J Neurosci 7(7):1596-602. PubMed: 7551186MGI: J:28663
- Carroll SL; Frohnert PW. 1998. Expression of JE (monocyte chemoattractant protein-1) is induced by sciatic axotomy in wild type rodents but not in C57BL/Wld(s) mice. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol 57(10):915-30. PubMed: 9786242MGI: J:51583
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- Chen S; Bisby MA. 1993. Impaired motor axon regeneration in the C57BL/Ola mouse. J Comp Neurol 333(3):449-54. PubMed: 8349851MGI: J:12834
- Cheng HC; Burke RE. 2010. The Wld(S) mutation delays anterograde, but not retrograde, axonal degeneration of the dopaminergic nigro-striatal pathway in vivo. J Neurochem 113(3):683-91. PubMed: 20132467MGI: J:159922
- Chitnis T; Imitola J; Wang Y; Elyaman W; Chawla P; Sharuk M; Raddassi K; Bronson RT; Khoury SJ. 2007. Elevated Neuronal Expression of CD200 Protects Wlds Mice from Inflammation-Mediated Neurodegeneration. Am J Pathol 170(5):1695-1712. PubMed: 17456775MGI: J:121079
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- Conforti L; Fang G; Beirowski B; Wang MS; Sorci L; Asress S; Adalbert R; Silva A; Bridge K; Huang XP; Magni G; Glass JD; Coleman MP. 2007. NAD(+) and axon degeneration revisited: Nmnat1 cannot substitute for Wld(S) to delay Wallerian degeneration. Cell Death Differ 14(1):116-27. PubMed: 16645633MGI: J:132236
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- Fernandes KA; Harder JM; John SW; Shrager P; Libby RT. 2014. DLK-dependent signaling is important for somal but not axonal degeneration of retinal ganglion cells following axonal injury. Neurobiol Dis 69:108-16. PubMed: 24878510MGI: J:214369
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- Ferri A; Sanes JR; Coleman MP; Cunningham JM; Kato AC. 2003. Inhibiting axon degeneration and synapse loss attenuates apoptosis and disease progression in a mouse model of motoneuron disease. Curr Biol 13(8):669-73. PubMed: 12699624MGI: J:82989
- Fischer LR; Culver DG; Davis AA; Tennant P; Wang M; Coleman M; Asress S; Adalbert R; Alexander GM; Glass JD. 2005. The WldS gene modestly prolongs survival in the SOD1G93A fALS mouse. Neurobiol Dis 19(1-2):293-300. PubMed: 15837585MGI: J:105092
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- Gallardo G; Schluter OM; Sudhof TC. 2008. A molecular pathway of neurodegeneration linking alpha-synuclein to ApoE and Abeta peptides. Nat Neurosci 11(3):301-8. PubMed: 18297066MGI: J:131733
- Gilley J; Adalbert R; Yu G; Coleman MP. 2013. Rescue of Peripheral and CNS Axon Defects in Mice Lacking NMNAT2. J Neurosci 33(33):13410-24. PubMed: 23946398MGI: J:200901
- Gillingwater TH; Ingham CA; Coleman MP; Ribchester RR. 2003. Ultrastructural correlates of synapse withdrawal at axotomized neuromuscular junctions in mutant and transgenic mice expressing the Wld gene. J Anat 203(3):265-76. PubMed: 14529044MGI: J:85517
- Gillingwater TH; Thomson D; Mack TG; Soffin EM; Mattison RJ; Coleman MP; Ribchester RR. 2002. Age-dependent synapse withdrawal at axotomised neuromuscular junctions in Wld(s) mutant and Ube4b/Nmnat transgenic mice. J Physiol 543(Pt 3):739-55. PubMed: 12231635MGI: J:134176
- Gillingwater TH; Wishart TM; Chen PE; Haley JE; Robertson K; MacDonald SH; Middleton S; Wawrowski K; Shipston MJ; Melmed S; Wyllie DJ; Skehel PA; Coleman MP; Ribchester RR. 2006. The neuroprotective WldS gene regulates expression of PTTG1 and erythroid differentiation regulator 1-like gene in mice and human cells. Hum Mol Genet 15(4):625-35. PubMed: 16403805MGI: J:106762
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- Glass JD; Nash N; Dry I; Culver D; Levey AI; Wesselingh S. 1998. Cloning of m-calpain 80 kD subunit from the axonal degeneration-resistant WLD(S) mouse mutant. J Neurosci Res 52(6):653-60. PubMed: 9669314MGI: J:48477
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- Harder JM; Braine CE; Williams PA; Zhu X; MacNicoll KH; Sousa GL; Buchanan RA; Smith RS; Libby RT; Howell GR; John SWM. 2017. Early immune responses are independent of RGC dysfunction in glaucoma with complement component C3 being protective. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 114(19):E3839-E3848. PubMed: 28446616MGI: J:242217
- Hasbani DM; O'Malley KL. 2006. Wld(S) mice are protected against the Parkinsonian mimetic MPTP. Exp Neurol 202(1):93-9. PubMed: 16806180MGI: J:114431
- Howell GR; Libby RT; Jakobs TC; Smith RS; Phalan FC; Barter JW; Barbay JM; Marchant JK; Mahesh N; Porciatti V; Whitmore AV; Masland RH; John SW. 2007. Axons of retinal ganglion cells are insulted in the optic nerve early in DBA/2J glaucoma. J Cell Biol 179(7):1523-37. PubMed: 18158332MGI: J:131073
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- Mack TG; Reiner M; Beirowski B; Mi W; Emanuelli M; Wagner D; Thomson D; Gillingwater T; Court F; Conforti L; Fernando FS; Tarlton A; Andressen C; Addicks K; Magni G; Ribchester RR; Perry VH; Coleman MP. 2001. Wallerian degeneration of injured axons and synapses is delayed by a Ube4b/Nmnat chimeric gene. Nat Neurosci 4(12):1199-206. PubMed: 11770485MGI: J:72936
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