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1Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.
Abstract:
Mechanosensory neurons utilize specialized compartments called mechanosensory organelles (MOs) to process external forces, yet the MO organization mechanisms remained unclear. In this issue, Song et al. (2023. J. Cell Biol.https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.202209116) discovered that a microtubule-binding protein, DCX-EMAP, is the key organizer of fly MOs.
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