title: AEXpulsing a retrograde signal.
abstract: A variety of secreted components have been identified as retrograde signals mediating diverse aspects of synaptic development, maintenance, and plasticity; however, little is known about the mechanisms mediating the release of secreted retrograde signals. Doi and Iwasaki (this issue of Neuron) implicate AEX-1, a protein distantly related to the UNC-13/Munc13 family, as an attractive candidate regulator of the retrograde release machinery in muscle.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 S. Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.
authors.forename: Michael L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Nonet
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D017173:Caenorhabditis elegans / Q000502:physiology; D029742:Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins / Q000502:physiology*; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000502:physiology*; D013569:Synapses / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: C446288:AEX-1 protein, C elegans; D029742:Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins