title: Broadening roles for FMRP: big news for big potassium (BK) channels.
abstract: FMRP is an RNA-binding protein that negatively regulates translation and which is lost in fragile X syndrome. In this issue of Neuron, Deng et al. (2013) demonstrate a novel translation-independent function for FMRP as a regulator of presynaptic BK channels that modulate the dynamics of neurotransmitter release.
authors: Department of Physiology and Department of Neurobiology, Northwestern University, 303 E Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL 60613, USA. a-contractor@northwestern.edu
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