An Organelle Gatekeeper Function for Caenorhabditis elegans UNC-16 (JIP3) at the Axon Initial Segment
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An organelle gatekeeper function for Caenorhabditis elegans UNC-16 (JIP3) at the axon initial segment.
Neurons must cope with extreme membrane trafficking demands to produce axons with organelle compositions that differ dramatically from those of the cell soma and dendrites; however, the mechanism by which they accomplish this is not understood. Here we use electron microscopy and quantitative imaging of tagged organelles to show that Caenorhabditis elegans axons lacking UNC-16 (JIP3/Sunday Driv...
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عنوان ژورنال: Genetics
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1943-2631
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.112.147348