title: Phospholipase D signalling and its involvement in neurite outgrowth.
abstract: Since the original discovery and structural elucidation of the mammalian phospholipase D (PLD), its potential to play a role in the lipid signalling pathway has attracted considerable interest. Now, it is generally accepted that different PLD isozymes are likely to serve diverse functions in membrane trafficking, endocytosis, exocytosis, cell growth, differentiation and actin cytoskeletal organization. In addition, PLDs are known to play a key role in neurite outgrowth, especially axon outgrowth, in neuronal cells.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiological Chemistry, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences and Institute of Basic Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Ten-nohdai, Tsukuba, Japan. ykanaho@md.tsukuba.ac.jp
authors.forename: Yasunori
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kanaho
authors.forename: Yuji
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Funakoshi
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hasegawa