Nature Communications (Sep 2016)

Flux of signalling endosomes undergoing axonal retrograde transport is encoded by presynaptic activity and TrkB

  • Tong Wang,
  • Sally Martin,
  • Tam H. Nguyen,
  • Callista B. Harper,
  • Rachel S. Gormal,
  • Ramon Martínez-Mármol,
  • Shanker Karunanithi,
  • Elizabeth J. Coulson,
  • Nick R. Glass,
  • Justin J. Cooper-White,
  • Bruno van Swinderen,
  • Frédéric A. Meunier

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12976
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Signalling endosomes are known to be essential for neuronal survival. Here the authors show that, in cultured hippocampal neurons and live Drosophilalarval motor neurons, neuronal activity increases the retrograde flux of signalling endosomes, and this coupling depends on TrkB activation.