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Zerong Cai

Boston Children's HospitalORCID 0000-0002-4946-5138Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Organism:Drosophila· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Organism:mouse· 1

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Circuit firing homeostasis following synaptic perturbation ensures robust behavior

Adam Hoagland, Zachary Louis Newman, Zerong Cai, Ehud Y. Isacoff

The paper shows that synaptic weakening in Drosophila motor neurons is compensated by increased firing and reduced inhibition, maintaining locomotion.

bioRxiv · Aug 27, 2024 · PreprintNeuroscience

Neuronal mitochondria transport Pink1 mRNA via Synaptojanin 2 to support local mitophagy

Angelika Bettina Harbauer, J. Tabitha Hees, Simone Wanderoy, Inmaculada Segura, Whitney S. Gibbs, Yiming Cheng, Martha Ordonez, Zerong Cai, Romain Cartoni, Ghazaleh Ashrafi, Chen Wang, Fabiana Perocchi, Zhigang He, Thomas L. Schwarz

The paper shows that Pink1 mRNA is transported with mitochondria and tethered by SYNJ2BP and SYNJ2 to support local mitophagy in neurons.

Neuron · Feb 24, 2022Peer-reviewedNeuroscience