Commentary Open Access
Volume 3 | Issue 1 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.46439/neurobiology.3.010
The multi-domain protein Piccolo is a versatile scaffolding protein with pleiotropic functions in the brain
Joanne Falck1, Christine Bruns1, Craig Garner1,2, Frauke Ackermann1,*
- 1German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Berlin, Germany
- 2Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
Corresponding Author
Frauke Ackermann, Frauke.Ackermann@dzne.de
Received Date: December 07, 2020
Accepted Date: February 09, 2021
Falck J, Bruns C, Garner C, Ackermann F. The multi-domain protein Piccolo is a versatile scaffolding protein with pleiotropic functions in the brain. J Neurobiol Physiol 2021; 3(1):2-7.
Copyright: © 2021 Falck J, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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