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Volume 58, 2024

Biological Roles of Local Protein Synthesis in Axons: A Journey of Discovery

Abstract

The remit of this review is to give an autobiographical account of our discovery of the role of local protein synthesis in axon guidance. The paper reporting our initial findings was published in 2001. Here, I describe some of the work that led to this publication, the skepticism our findings initially received, and the subsequent exciting years of follow-up work that helped gradually to convince the neuroscience community of the existence and functional importance of local protein synthesis in multiple aspects of axon biology—guidance, branching, synaptogenesis, and maintenance. The journey has been an exhilarating one, taking me into a new field of RNA biology, with many unexpected twists and turns. In retelling it here, I have tried to recall the major influences on my thinking at the time rather than give a comprehensive review, and I apologize for any omissions due to my own ignorance during that era.

Keyword(s): autobiography, axon, axon guidance, axon maintenance, branching, local translation, mRNA
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Biological Roles of Local Protein Synthesis in Axons: A Journey of Discovery
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