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ABSTRACT:
INSTRUMENT(S): Q Exactive
ORGANISM(S): Drosophila Melanogaster Drosophila Melanogaster (fruit Fly)
TISSUE(S): Cell Culture
SUBMITTER: Travis Thomson
LAB HEAD: Travis Carle Thomson
PROVIDER: PXD008136 | Pride | 2018-01-18
REPOSITORIES: Pride
Cell 20180101 1-2
Arc/Arg3.1 is required for synaptic plasticity and cognition, and mutations in this gene are linked to autism and schizophrenia. Arc bears a domain resembling retroviral/retrotransposon Gag-like proteins, which multimerize into a capsid that packages viral RNA. The significance of such a domain in a plasticity molecule is uncertain. Here, we report that the Drosophila Arc1 protein forms capsid-like structures that bind darc1 mRNA in neurons and is loaded into extracellular vesicles that are tran ...[more]