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. 2011 Jan 27;69(2):183-5.
doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2011.01.007.

Controlled demolition: Smurf1 regulates neuronal polarity by substrate switching

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Controlled demolition: Smurf1 regulates neuronal polarity by substrate switching

Michael Stiess et al. Neuron. .
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During axon specification, growth promoting proteins localize selectively to the growing axon. In this issue of Neuron, Cheng et al. report how selective protein degradation, controlled by a substrate switch of the ubiquitin ligase Smurf1, specifies Par6 and RhoA localization and thereby regulates neuronal polarity.

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