1. Carla Taveggia and James L. Salzer are in the Department of Cell Biology and the Molecular Neurobiology Program, Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York 10016, USA. e-mail: salzer@saturn.med.nyu.edu

Abstract

A recent paper in Science reports that for Schwann cells to initiate myelination, the Par-3 polarity protein must interact with the neurotrophin receptor p75^NTR and relocate it to membrane domains of glia-axon contact.

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