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Traffic Jams in the Brain: How Kinesin Dysfunction Shapes Neurodevelopmental Disorders

2026-07-02

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The development and maintenance of the nervous system depend on a tightly regulated intracellular transport network in which kinesin superfamily (KIF) motor proteins drive microtubule-based delivery of synaptic vesicle precursors, organelles, mRNAs, and signaling components along axons and dendrites. Disruption of this machinery underlies a clinically heterogeneous spectrum of neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs),...

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Literature Corpus work: 8d9cc503-c5eb-557a-8114-30e151a21f70
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202607.0124.v1

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