Nature Communications (Jan 2018)

Neuronal messenger ribonucleoprotein transport follows an aging Lévy walk

  • Minho S. Song,
  • Hyungseok C. Moon,
  • Jae-Hyung Jeon,
  • Hye Yoon Park

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02700-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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The transport dynamics of messenger ribonucleoproteins in neurons is crucial to our neuronal functions, but the detail remains elusive. Song et al. show that they are transported along the dendrites in alternating run and rest phases with their own random sojourn times, following an aging Lévy walk.