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Tinker to Evers to Chance: semaphorin signaling takes teamwork

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The Rho-family GTPases act downstream of axon guidance receptors, controlling proteins that remodel the cytoskeleton. New work now suggests that these GTPases also team up to regulate activation of the semaphorin-3A receptor itself.

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Figure 1: A model for plexin-A1 activation and growth-cone repulsion by semaphorin-3A.

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