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Cytoskeleton: axons earn their stripes.

Current biology : CB ·Vol. 23 ·No. 5 ·2013-03-04 ·Pages R197-8

Rasband MN

Abstract

Axons must be supported by a strong and flexible cytoskeleton. New 'super-resolution' imaging of the submembranous axonal cytoskeleton reveals that it is organized in a periodic, ladder-like structure with alternating rings of actin linked together by intervening complexes of spectrin.

MeSH Terms
Actins/ultrastructure Animals Axons/chemistry,ultrastructure Calmodulin-Binding Proteins/ultrastructure Cytoskeleton/chemistry,ultrastructure Spectrin/ultrastructure
Chemicals
Actins Calmodulin-Binding Proteins Spectrin
Authors & Affiliations
1 authors, click to expand affiliations / ORCID
Rasband Matthew N
Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030, USA. [email protected]
Article Info
Journal
Current biology : CB
Abbr.
Curr Biol
ISSN
1879-0445
DOI
10.1016/j.cub.2013.01.050
Email
[email protected]
Published
2013-03-04
Pages
R197-8
Language
English
Region
England
NLM ID
9107782
Subset
IM
Corrections
CommentOn
PMID: 23239625
External Links
PubMed source DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2013.01.050 View journal details
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