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SARM1-specific motifs in the TIR domain enable NAD+ loss and regulate injury-induced SARM1 activation.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 11 Oct 2016
Summers Daniel W, Gibson Daniel A, DiAntonio Aaron, Milbrandt Jeffrey
Abstract excerpt
Axon injury in response to trauma or disease stimulates a self-destruction program that promotes the localized clearance of damaged axon segments. Sterile alpha and Toll/interleukin receptor (TIR) motif-containing protein 1 (SARM1) is an evolutionarily conserved executioner of this degeneration cascade, also known as Wallerian degeneration; however, the mechanism of SARM1-dependent neuronal destruction is still...
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