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      APC and GSK-3beta are involved in mPar3 targeting to the nascent axon and establishment of neuronal polarity.

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      Current biology : CB
      Elsevier BV

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          In developing hippocampal neurons in culture, the evolutionarily conserved polarity complex mPar3/mPar6/aPKC selectively accumulates at the tip of one, and only one, of the immature neurites of a neuron and thus specifies the axon and generates neuronal polarity. How mPar3/mPar6 is enriched at the tip of the nascent axon, but not the dendrites, is not fully understood. Here, we report that mPar3 forms a complex with adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) and kinesin superfamily (KIF) 3A, proteins that move along microtubules. In polarizing hippocampal neurons, APC selectively accumulates at the nascent axon tip and colocalizes with mPar3. Expression of dominant-negative C terminus deletion mutants of APC or ectopic expression of APC leads to dislocalization of mPar3 and defects in axon specification and neuronal polarity. In addition to spatial polarization of APC, the selective inactivation of the GSK-3beta activity at the nascent axon tip is required for mPar3 targeting and polarization and establishing neuronal polarity. These results suggest that mPar3 is polarized in developing neurons through APC- and kinesin-mediated transport to the plus ends of rapidly growing microtubules at the nascent axon tip, a process that involves a spatially regulated GSK-3beta activity.

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          Journal
          Curr Biol
          Current biology : CB
          Elsevier BV
          0960-9822
          0960-9822
          Nov 23 2004
          : 14
          : 22
          Affiliations
          [1 ] Departments of Physiology and Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California at San Francisco, 1550 4th Street, San Francisco, CA 94143-0725, USA.
          Article
          S0960-9822(04)00875-9
          10.1016/j.cub.2004.11.009
          15556865
          2d074447-7a35-4a38-a7ad-9d787e0a63d9
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