Actin, Spectrin, and Associated Proteins Form a Periodic Cytoskeletal Structure in Axons
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- 25 January 2013
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 339 (6118), 452-456
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1232251
Abstract
Actin and spectrin play important roles in neurons, but their organization in axons and dendrites remains unclear. We used stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy to study the organization of actin, spectrin, and associated proteins in neurons. Actin formed ringlike structures that wrapped around the circumference of axons and were evenly spaced along axonal shafts with a periodicity of ~180 to 190 nanometers. This periodic structure was not observed in dendrites, which instead contained long actin filaments running along dendritic shafts. Adducin, an actin-capping protein, colocalized with the actin rings. Spectrin exhibited periodic structures alternating with those of actin and adducin, and the distance between adjacent actin-adducin rings was comparable to the length of a spectrin tetramer. Sodium channels in axons were distributed in a periodic pattern coordinated with the underlying actin-spectrin–based cytoskeleton.Keywords
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