Nature Communications (Sep 2018)

A key function for microtubule-associated-protein 6 in activity-dependent stabilisation of actin filaments in dendritic spines

  • Leticia Peris,
  • Mariano Bisbal,
  • José Martinez-Hernandez,
  • Yasmina Saoudi,
  • Julie Jonckheere,
  • Marta Rolland,
  • Muriel Sebastien,
  • Jacques Brocard,
  • Eric Denarier,
  • Christophe Bosc,
  • Christophe Guerin,
  • Sylvie Gory-Fauré,
  • Jean Christophe Deloulme,
  • Fabien Lanté,
  • Isabelle Arnal,
  • Alain Buisson,
  • Yves Goldberg,
  • Laurent Blanchoin,
  • Christian Delphin,
  • Annie Andrieux

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05869-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Microtubule-associated protein 6 (MAP6) is known to be important for synaptic plasticity and cognition, supposedly via interaction with microtubules. Here, the authors found that MAP6 is crucial for the stabilisation of enlarged synapses through its association with a different cytoskeletal element, actin.