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... , which modulate cap-dependent transThis paper was presented at the National Academy of Sciences colloquium, "Molecular Kinesis in Cellular Function and Plasticity," held December 7-9, 2000, at the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center in Irvine, CA. Abbreviations: CPE, cytoplasmic polyadenylation element; CPEB, CPE binding protein; CPSF, cleavage and polyadenylation specificity factor.
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... 22~. These observations, as well as others demonstrating that many of the components of the protein synthesis machinery, including mRNAs, are present in dendrites, suggest that local translational control by synaptic activation could underlie, at least partially, synaptic plasticity (23, 24~.
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... 16. Huang, J
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