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Memory mechanisms: the yin and yang of protein phosphorylation
1Division of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, 1 Baylor Plaza, Houston, Texas 77030, USA. david@cns.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu
Current Biology : CB
|May 30, 2001
Abstract:
Protein phosphorylation has long been known to play a key role in triggering the synaptic changes underlying learning and memory. Recent studies highlight the importance of tightly regulated dephosphorylation as a mechanism controlling the induction of long-term synaptic change and lasting memory.