Current Biology 2013-03-04

Cytoskeleton: axons earn their stripes.

Matthew N Rasband

Index: Curr. Biol. 23(5) , R197-8, (2013)

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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.Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.