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PLoS Genetics Issue Image | Vol. 11(12) December 2015

RAB-10 regulates dendritic branching by balancing dendritic transport

Tremendous cellular growth is required to construct a complex dendritic arbor, and it remains unclear how membrane and protein components are transported to support a rapidly growing, polarized dendrite. Shown here is the elaborate dendritic arbor of a PVD sensory neuron in Caenorhabditis elegans. In the PVD neuron, we demonstrate that the regulation of dendritic trafficking by the small GTPase RAB-10 is necessary to pattern a complex dendritic arbor. Taylor et al.

Image Credit: Caitlin Taylor, Shen Lab, Stanford University

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RAB-10 regulates dendritic branching by balancing dendritic transport

Tremendous cellular growth is required to construct a complex dendritic arbor, and it remains unclear how membrane and protein components are transported to support a rapidly growing, polarized dendrite. Shown here is the elaborate dendritic arbor of a PVD sensory neuron in Caenorhabditis elegans. In the PVD neuron, we demonstrate that the regulation of dendritic trafficking by the small GTPase RAB-10 is necessary to pattern a complex dendritic arbor. Taylor et al.

Image Credit: Caitlin Taylor, Shen Lab, Stanford University

https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pgen.v11.i12.g001