Axon guidance: proteins turnover in turning growth cones.

Curr Biol

Department of Neuroscience, University of Minnesota, 6-145 Jackson Hall, 321 Church St. SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.

Published: August 2002

Accurate navigation by a neuronal growth cone requires the modulation of the growth cone's responsiveness to spatial and temporal changes in expression of guidance cues. These adaptations involve local protein synthesis and turnover in growth cones and distal axons.

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