Plethora of protein-making machines in neurons may underlie fragile X - Spectrum

An overabundance of ribosomes drives an imbalance of proteins produced from long and short genetic transcripts in a mouse model of fragile X syndrome.

Protein packed: Neurons (pink, blue) in brain slices from mice lacking FMR1 have large nucleoli (green, left), a part of the cell that increases in size when ribosomes are being produced, and a heigh… [+6917 chars]

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