Work relevant to the molecular mechanisms regulating local translation in neurons, specifically at the presynaptic terminal.
Editor Joseph J. Bruckner
The Long 3'UTR mRNA of Is Essential for Translation-Dependent Plasticity of Spontaneous Release in (2017)
Elena A. Kuklin, Stephen Alkins, Baskar Bakthavachalu, Maria C. Genco, Indulekha Sudhakaran, K. Vijay Raghavan, Mani Ramaswami, Leslie C. Griffith
PubMed: 28954869 DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1313-17.2017
Locally translated CaMKII is involved in the regulation of spontaneous neurotransmitter release at neuromuscular junction synapses in Drosophila, distinct from CaMKII synthesized from maternally contributed transcripts.