Cytoskeleton: axons earn their stripes
- PMID: 23473560
- DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2013.01.050
Cytoskeleton: axons earn their stripes
Abstract
Axons must be supported by a strong and flexible cytoskeleton. New 'super-resolution' imaging of the submembranous axonal cytoskeleton reveals that it is organized in a periodic, ladder-like structure with alternating rings of actin linked together by intervening complexes of spectrin.
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Comment on
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Actin, spectrin, and associated proteins form a periodic cytoskeletal structure in axons.Science. 2013 Jan 25;339(6118):452-6. doi: 10.1126/science.1232251. Epub 2012 Dec 13. Science. 2013. PMID: 23239625 Free PMC article.
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