This message will self-destruct: NMD regulates axon guidance.

Preitner, Nicolas; Quan, Jie; Flanagan, John G · Cell · 2013

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

The navigation of axons to their final destination can involve a sequence of steps that require different sets of guidance receptors. In this issue, Colak et al. show that regulated intra-axonal protein synthesis coupled to nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) controls a switch in Robo3.2 expression that is critical for navigation.

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