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Golden Goal collaborates with Flamingo in conferring synaptic-layer specificity in the visual system.
Nature neuroscience - 1 Mar 2011
Hakeda-Suzuki Satoko, Berger-Müller Sandra, Tomasi Tatiana, Usui Tadao, Horiuchi Shin-Ya, Uemura Tadashi, Suzuki Takashi
Abstract excerpt
Neuronal connections are often organized in layers that contain synapses between neurons that have similar functions. In Drosophila, R7 and R8 photoreceptors, which detect different wavelengths, form synapses in distinct medulla layers. The mechanisms underlying the specificity of synaptic-layer selection remain unclear. We found that Golden Goal (Gogo) and Flamingo (Fmi), two cell-surface proteins involved in...
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