Primary Cilia and Brain Wiring, Connecting the Dots.
Primary cilia function as cellular signaling hubs, integrating multiple signaling pathways. Patients with the ciliopathy Joubert syndrome have been suggested to have axonal tract defects. In this issue of Developmental Cell, Guo et al. (2019) demonstrate a ciliary signaling requirement for axonal tract development and connectivity through dysregulated PI3K/AKT/ACIII signaling.
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