| Range |
~30 µm
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| Organism |
Rat Rattus norvegicus |
| Reference |
Panayotis N, Karpova A, Kreutz MR, Fainzilber M. Macromolecular transport in synapse to nucleus communication. Trends Neurosci. 2015 Feb38(2):108-16. doi: 10.1016/j.tins.2014.12.001. p.109 right column bottom paragraphPubMed ID25534890
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| Primary Source |
J.S. Wiegert, et al. Diffusion and not active transport underlies and limits ERK1/2 synapse-to-nucleus signaling in hippocampal neurons J. Biol. Chem., 282 (2007), pp. 29621–29633PubMed ID17675293
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| Method |
Primary source p.9622 left column 4th paragraph:"Here [investigators] investigated the dendritic trafficking and nuclear translocation of ERK1/2 in hippocampal neurons using ERK1 and ERK2 labeled with a recently developed photobleachable and photoactivable tag (ref 34)." |
| Comments |
P.109 right column bottom paragraph:"The effective diffusion range of ERK has been estimated to be approximately 30 μm in hippocampal dendrites [primary source] and, moreover, the signaling range might be additionally constrained by phosphatase activity in the cytoplasm [ref 3]. How then might a phosphorylated signaling molecule such as ERK traverse distances of a few hundred microns in a phosphatase-rich environment from synapse to nucleus while maintaining its signaling capacity over periods of tens of minutes or more? Karpova et al. [ref 44] characterized such a mechanism in the course of a study aimed at understanding how the nucleus can distinguish between signaling of synaptic versus extrasynaptic NMDARs [N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors]." |
| Entered by |
Uri M |
| ID |
112207 |