In patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) and mice with experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), inflammatory axonal injury is a major determinant of disability; however, the drivers of this injury are incompletely understood. Here, we used the EAE model and determined that the extracellular matrix protein matrilin-2 (MATN2) is an endogenous neuronal molecule that is regulated in association with inflammatory axonal injury. Compared with WT mice, mice harboring a deletion of
Anna Jonas, Stefan Thiem, Tanja Kuhlmann, Raimund Wagener, Attila Aszodi, Cameron Nowell, Karin Hagemeier, Louise Laverick, Victoria Perreau, Vilija Jokubaitis, Ben Emery, Trevor Kilpatrick, Helmut Butzkueven, Melissa Gresle
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