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Periodic actin structures in neuronal axons are required to maintain microtubules

2016-04-19

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<h4>Summary</h4> Axons are the cable-like neuronal processes wiring the nervous system. They contain parallel bundles of microtubules as structural backbones, surrounded by regularly-spaced actin rings termed the periodic membrane skeleton (PMS). Despite being an evolutionarily-conserved, ubiquitous, highly-ordered feature of axons, the function of PMS is unknown. Here we studied PMS abundance, organisation and f...

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Literature Corpus work: 7627d610-d878-5a90-addc-cbb308b91a09
DOI: 10.1101/049379

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